Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
David Bowie Quotes
AdmirationIntelligenceTalentVirtuosity I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
AcceptanceEgoInspirationRespectValidation I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs - that's where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that's very cool.
AuthenticityConnectionIdentityLabelsRejection I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever.
ArtExistenceHumanitySpirituality 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.
AcceptanceAgingEmbracing Change I don't have a problem with ageing - in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily... it doesn't faze me at all.
ChangeFaithIdentitySelf-QuestioningSpirituality 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.'
Spiritual Search An armchair Jungian would say the whole thing is about my own ongoing spiritual search. My interior life has always been one of trying to find a spiritual link, maybe because I'm from a family of separate religious philosophies: Protestant and Catholic.
AutonomyDehumanizationIdentityRecognitionStruggle I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.
ExcellenceInfluenceSelf Belief To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.
AcceptanceGrowthPrideResilience I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.
AuthorshipCreationDetachment 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.
CommunicationMusicSelf-Expression 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.
PerseverancePerspectiveUniquenessWriting 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.
Alter EgoArtistic IdentityCreative Process I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.
IndependenceIndividualitySelf-MotivationSelf Reliance 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.
EnjoymentMusicPassion I'm wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It's a real enjoyment.
Cultural DifferencesNational CharacterPerspective The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's either 'rawk' or it's not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.
InterestsMimePrioritiesTheatre I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.
BandsFavoritesMusic GYBE are among my, erm, two favourite Montreal bands, Arcade Fire being the other.
ArtChangeCreativityPassion I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
Artistic TransformationCreative ProcessEmotional ResilienceExpression Of EmotionsStorytelling These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that.
FamilyReligious Differences My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home - I think in those days we called them arguments - about who was right and who was wrong.
AutobiographyFundrasingPersonal AmbitionPersonal BrandingSelf-Promotion 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.
AuthenticitySelf-DiscoverySimplicityWriting I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write.
AuthenticityInner PeaceObligationPerformanceStress Relief Frankly, if I could get away with not having to perform, I'd be very happy. It's not my favorite thing to do.
PerceptionPublic ImageSurprise I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.