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I couldn’t stand to be separated with my wife for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.

It’s much easier for me to say that, the kind of music I didn’t listen to was pretty much that. I mean everything, from jazz to classical to popular. And Tibetan horns were a great part of it in 1966, ’67.

It would be positively boring if minds were in tune.

I’ve made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I’ve made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I’m proud of what I’ve done. In fact it’s been a good ride.

It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.

I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.

I never heard so many kids talk about just doing anything to be famous. I mean, yeah, fame is part of the deal when you’re a kid and you think, I wanna go into music, but everybody that I knew was really doing it because of their love for it. I don’t see so much of that anymore.

I guess, – a greater number of the 26 or so albums that I’ve made are known in Europe than they are in America.

I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.

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

There have been times when I’ve written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I’ve taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

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.

And the stars look very different today.

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

I’m not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together.

Things have to hit for the moment. That’s one of the reasons I’m into video; the image has to hit immediately. I adore video and the whole cutting up of it.

Rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that’s coming out today, people are just, they’ve got it on as background music. It’s kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music; it’s very disposable.

I had a fantasy that i’d drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.

In fact, in Europe, I’m more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff.

Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an illicit contentment, what with the slave systems all over the world, in England especially, the peasants and the master, etc. People were incredibly content.

Once I’ve written something it does tend to run away from me. I don’t seem to have any part of it – it’s no longer my piece of writing.

I’m regarded quite asexually by a lot of people. And the people that understand me the best are nearer to what I understand about me.

The people who don’t know so much about me regard me more sexually.

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.

A career of nearly 40 years, is not very long.

I don’t mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.

I’m not a natural performer. I don’t like performing very much.

People will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate – because, unfortunately, they’ve been programmed to do that.

I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I’d be able to put the two together. And I suppose I very nearly did with the Ziggy character.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that’s happened in music in a long time.

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.

People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is.

It’s odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about ‘old and other times’ as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory.

In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it’s the recording or the performance side.

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

I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn’t like.

The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.

Sweet head, give you sweet head.

Critics I don’t understand. They get too intellectual. They’re not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.

If I wasn’t going through a thing where I was also being my characters offstage, uh, I’m much happier just wearing the most low-profile things that I can come up with just so I can get down the street...

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

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.

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.

There’s something about the style of living in the country that they feel, “This is what represents me.” So style is about the philosophy of how we create our civilization.

Every time I’ve made a radical change it’s helped me feel buoyant as an artist.

The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.

I realized the other day that I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

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