Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties. David Bowie eightyimportantpixie Change image and share on social
If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer. David Bowie askewcontemporarypossibly Change image and share on social
Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.' David Bowie atheistbitecouple share on social
I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment. David Bowie abandonmentdealfear Change image and share on social
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 feelindividualqualify Change image and share on social
Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano. David Bowie heathenminepiano Change image and share on social
As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself. David Bowie adolescentdecidedisguise share on social
I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song. David Bowie colourexpressionmaterial Change image and share on social
I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does. David Bowie agoarticulateexplain Change image and share on social