David Bowie
David Bowie
David Robert Jones, better known by his stage name David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a figure in popular music for over five decades, regarded by critics and musicians as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, his music and stagecraft significantly influencing popular music. During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at 140 million worldwide, made him one of the world's best-selling music...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth8 January 1947
CityLondon, England
I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.
I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.
Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.
What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That's what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.
I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.
Being a hybrid maker off and on over the years, I'm very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself.
I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write.
Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.
I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.
Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.
I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me.
I'm very good at what I do, and I don't turn my hand to something unless I'm very good at it, frankly.
When Brian and I came back together this time, we found that we'd gone through very similar psychological states during the course of the '80s.
I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.