When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
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David Bowie is such a big influence to me. Everything about him as a person is intriguing to me.
In my creative life, David Bowie is definitely an enormous influence on me, being one of rock's greatest shapeshifters.
I grew up as a kid looking at artists like David Bowie and Prince; I really admired them.
I went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work.
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.
Bowie's been a huge influence on me.
I was a kid at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, so a lot of things changed. You had pop music coming up, with David Bowie, you had new television programmes and all these things. I was fascinated.
Bowie has been in my mind as someone who disappeared from the public for a long time and then emerged. A strange, exotic creature - he seems to inherit a tradition of enigma and exclusiveness.
Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when I grew up. Then I realized I really just like stories.
Bowie is probably my favorite all-around songwriter and performer and personality. His ability to change over the years is such an inspiration. I love 'Young Americans' and 'Fame.'
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