David Bowie Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.

  David Bowie

  Writing, Play, Numbers

• I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.

  David Bowie

  Writing, Kids, People

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.31, Melville House

• You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut the sentences into four or five-word sections; mix em up and reconnect them. You can get some pretty interesting idea combinations like this. You can use them as is or, if you have a craven need to not lose control, bounce off these ideas and write whole new sections.

  David Bowie

  Writing, Cutting, Ideas

• To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily.

  David Bowie

  Motivation, Taken, Writing

  Source: ca.complex.com

• I had enormous self-image, problems and very low self-esteem, which I hid behind obsessive writing and performing. It's exactly what I do now except I enjoy it now. I'm not driven like I was in my twenties. I was driven to get through life very quickly.

  David Bowie

  Self Esteem, Writing, Twenties

  "CHANGESFIFTYBOWIE". Interview with David Cavanagh for Q Magazine, www.bowiewonderworld.com. February 1997.

• What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated.

  David Bowie

  Lonely, Writing, Feelings

• 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

  Spiritual, Atheist, Couple

• 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.

  David Bowie

  Memories, Kids, Writing

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". Livewire Interview, www.concertlivewire.com. June 16, 2002.

• I always write well in New York.

  David Bowie

  New York, Writing, Wells

  "David Bowie EW Cover: Inside David Bowie and Moby's out-of-this-world 2002 tour". Interview with Jeff Gordinier, ew.com. 2002.

• Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.

  David Bowie

  Song, Writing, Reality

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". www.concertlivewire.com. June 16, 2002.

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

  David Bowie

  Writing, Europe, Stuff

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: 'We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wglt.org. 2002.

• Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

  David Bowie

  Song, Art, Writing

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.34, Melville House

• What I like doing is writing and recording and much more on the, I guess, the - on that creative level. It's fun interpreting songs and all that, but I wouldn't like it as a living.

  David Bowie

  Song, Fun, Writing

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 11, 2016.

• A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that.

  David Bowie

  Song, Stars, Philosophy

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.35, Melville House

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

  David Bowie

  Writing, Wanted

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 11, 2016.

• 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.

  David Bowie

  Taken, Writing, Heart

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.39, Melville House

• I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

  David Bowie

  Selfish, Writing, Mean

• 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.

  David Bowie

  Writing, League, Trying

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.40, Melville House

• On "Tonight" I think I was torn dreadfully between writing what I wanted to write, but keeping it in a style that would follow up what I had just done. That's where I feel I was untrue to myself as an artist . . . that album and, to a lesser extent, "Never Let Me Down."

  David Bowie

  Writing, Thinking, Artist

  "POP MUSIC : David Bowie: The Man Who Fell . . . Then Got Up Again". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. April 4, 1993.

• I hate albums that are really happy. When I am really happy, I don't like to hear happy albums, and when I am really sad I don't wanna hear happy albums... and I tend to gravitate towards the lonely and isolated anyway when I write.

  David Bowie

  Lonely, Hate, Writing

• I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be so as to give them something to write about.

  David Bowie

  Lying, Writing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  David Bowie

  Running, Writing, Doe

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.17, Melville House

• Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.

  David Bowie

  Writing, Together, Letters

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