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.
From David Bowie
Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.
I've always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I've heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.
There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.
I was never particularly fond of my voice.
I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt - you know, I had to go out and do them.
I couldn't have written things like 'Low' and 'Heroes,' those particular albums, if it hadn't have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.
I have all the admiration in the world for somebody like Bono, who really puts himself on the line and tries actively to do something about our world situation.
All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.
Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.
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