David Bowie
David Bowie
David Robert Jones, better known by his stage name David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a figure in popular music for over five decades, regarded by critics and musicians as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, his music and stagecraft significantly influencing popular music. During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at 140 million worldwide, made him one of the world's best-selling music...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth8 January 1947
CityLondon, England
I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.
I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.
For here, I'm sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet earth is blue, and there is nothing I can do.
I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine.
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.
I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.
I can ask for cigarettes in every language
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.
The minute you know you're on safe ground, you're dead
You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.
Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something.