Bowie

If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.
David Bowie
“Late-night hosts pay tribute to David Bowie” by Danette Chavez, www.avclub.com. January 12, 2016.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.
David Bowie

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.
David Bowie
"FMO’s Final Interview With David Bowie". Interview with Johnnny, fmobserver.com. March 4, 2016.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.
David Bowie
“The Next Day” by Ryan Dombal Senior, pitchfork.com. March 11, 2013.

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.
David Bowie

You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race
David Bowie

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.
David Bowie
"Playboy Interview: David Bowie, 1976". Interview with Cameron Crowe, www.playboy.com. September, 1976.

One day I realized that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can't even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life. That's when you can begin really looking for a relationship. When you can appreciate the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.
David Bowie

The Internet is merely a new means of communication, that's all it is. It serves the purpose of getting information, which it is fantastic at. I mean, I live by the Internet in terms of research and it's incredible - there's nothing that you can't find out about. It's not stopped me going to bookshops but I must say that I don't go into as many because any book I want.
David Bowie

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
David Bowie

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.
David Bowie
Song: Changes, Album: Hunky Dory, 1971

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.
David Bowie

It was fun to be clever.
David Bowie
Source: www.chicagotribune.com

Of course, we found out later Syd Barrett had mental problems. But there was something so otherworldly about him. He was hovering, like, six inches above the ground.
David Bowie
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Turn and face the strange.
David Bowie
Song: Changes, Album: Hunky Dory, 1971

I'm a born librarian with a sex drive.
David Bowie
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.
David Bowie
Song: Let's Dance, Album: Let's Dance, 1983

The moment you know you know you know.
David Bowie
Song: Where Are We Now?, Album: The Next Day, 2013

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

The end comes when the infinites arrive.
David Bowie
David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.33, Melville House

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.
David Bowie
"Mourning David Bowie, Dead at 69" by Nicole Silverberg, www.gq.com. January 11, 2016.

Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.
David Bowie
"David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. August, 2003.

Look up here, I'm in heaven.
David Bowie
"Song: "Lazarus" ("Blackstar")". December 17, 2015.

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.
David Bowie
"David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. August, 2003.

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