David Bowie Quotations | Page 5

I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.

I can't keep my fingers out of any pies.

When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.

I started playing around with local rock band swith the alto. And then, in a nutshell, somebody fell ill one night, the lead singer of one of the bands, and they knew I could sing, so they asked me if I would stand in. And I quite enjoyed it, actually, I must say, at 14. It was a real trip to have girls wave at you and smile and everything just because you opened your mouth and sang.

I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.

People don't get a chance to think, "Why am I a consumer?" Because the decisions come at them so fast and furiously, they're not [even] given time to think, I am a consumer.

I never really got the book together for the thing, so I had all the songs and the characters. But by the time we'd gotten it on the road and I'd been doing it for 18 months, oh God, I couldn't wait to move on to something else.

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

I guess Ziggy would have been the perfect vehicle to have done with.

I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well.

I thought that I could do some kind of vehicle involving rock musicals and presenting rock and characters and storyline in a completely different fashion.

Sexuality and where it is going is an extraordinary question, for I don't see it going anywhere. It is with me, and that's it.

We were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were creating the 21st century in 1971. That was the idea. And we wanted to just blast everything in the past, rather like the vorticists did at the beginning of the century in the Britain or the dadaists did Europe, you know. It was the same sensibility of everything is rubbish, and all rubbish is wonderful.

The media is either our salvation or our death.

TV has eaten up everything else, and Warhol films are all that are left, which is fabulous. Pork could become the next I Love Lucy, the great American domestic comedy. It's about how people really live, not like Lucy, who never touched dishwater. It's about people living and hustling to survive.

The public, obviously, they takes things in a very simplest fashion and so they should. That's why we have such wonderful television.

Some of us, I think, us small, pompous arty ones probably read too much George Steiner and kind of got the idea that we were entering to this kind of post-culture age and that we'd better do something postmodernist - quickly, before somebody else did.

I didn't say that wearing a glamorization of the rock artist was any truer from the other thing.

It would be positively boring if minds were in tune.

The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

A lot of people that I know are bugged with the idea that they have got to have an audience, or they have got to be liked. I think the more that you fall into that trap it makes your own life harder to come to terms with, because an audience appreciation is only going to be periodic at the best of times.

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

I don't like talk and I don't like talkers. Like Ma Barker. That's what she always said, 'Ma Barker doesn't like talk and she doesn't like talkers.' She just sat there with her gun.

I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

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.

...And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds, they are immune to your consultations, they're quite aware of what they're going through...

I've started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site, and they figured that it might not be a bad thing if they got me to do some for them as well. I gave them five categories I'd be interested in reviewing, from art to fiction to music.

I wanted to create an environment where not just my fans but all music lovers could be a part of the same community.

I told them I'd only do it if they got Arcade Fire to perform. They're fantastic.

What is very enlightening for me right now is that I sense that I'm arriving at a place of peace with my writing that I've never experienced before.