I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.
David Bowie

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.
David Bowie

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.
David Bowie

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
David Bowie

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.
David Bowie

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
David Bowie

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
David Bowie

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
David Bowie

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.
David Bowie

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.
David Bowie

Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.
David Bowie

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.
David Bowie

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.
David Bowie