The crime that offends me most is seeing a man humble himself in his capacity as a worker to somebody else, and having to have that accepted as a given situation. - David Bowie
Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas. - David Bowie
People are so fucking dumb. Nobody reads anymore, nobody goes out and looks and explores the society and culture they were brought up in. People have attention spans of five seconds and as much depth as a glass of water. - David Bowie
Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out... - David Bowie
I’m a person who can take on the guises of people I meet. I’m a collector, and I collect personalities and ideas. - David Bowie
I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me. - David Bowie
I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously. - David Bowie
I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he`s up there with Bryan Ferry. - David Bowie
I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar. I’m not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot. - David Bowie
I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman. - David Bowie
Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in. - 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
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. - David Bowie
As you get older the questions come down to two or three. How long have I got and what am I gonna do with the time I've got left? - David Bowie
And I don't care what anybody says; I like doing it, and it's what I shall continue to do. - David Bowie