Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

David Bowie Quotes

Autonomy Dehumanization Identity Recognition Struggle I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

Change Faith Identity Self-Questioning Spirituality 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.'

Perception Public Image Surprise 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.

Art Change Creativity Passion 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.

Authenticity Self-Discovery Simplicity Writing I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write.

Authorship Creation Detachment 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.

Independence Individuality Self-Motivation Self 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.

Admiration Intelligence Talent Virtuosity I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

Autobiography Fundrasing Personal Ambition Personal Branding Self-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.

Acceptance Growth Pride Resilience 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.

Family Religious 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.

Enjoyment Music Passion I'm wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It's a real enjoyment.

Acceptance Ego Inspiration Respect Validation 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.

Perseverance Perspective Uniqueness Writing 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.

Authenticity Inner Peace Obligation Performance Stress 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.

Art Existence Humanity Spirituality 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.

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.

Identity Mental Struggle Perseverance Self-Acceptance Transformation I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

Inspiration Music When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

Authenticity Connection Identity Labels Rejection I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever.

Interests Mime Priorities Theatre 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.

Bands Favorites Music GYBE are among my, erm, two favourite Montreal bands, Arcade Fire being the other.

Cultural Differences National Character Perspective 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.

Acceptance Aging Embracing 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.

Discovery Reflection Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

Alter Ego Artistic Identity Creative Process I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

Artistic Transformation Creative Process Emotional Resilience Expression Of Emotions Storytelling 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.

Excellence Influence Self 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.

Communication Music Self-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.

Change Honesty Self-awareness I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.