Status Updates From David Bowie: The Oral History

“I’m so glad I took the time to tell him I was so grateful for his presence in my life, because he changed my life forever.” (p.463)

“To be so creative right up to the end, that’s brave, that’s special.” (p.474)

“I have such respect for people who have that degree of celebrity who can die privately.” (p.495)

“All of this was carefully planned, to become a work of death art.” (p.499)

David said that he and Eno were talking about existentialism. And he said that that’s when everything changed, when his whole vibe of music changed. p.426

I’m not so sure that there is any purpose, and that the thing that really starts to confound me. Because it’s contradictory. I don’t do it with a sinking sense of negativity; I can actually feel quite content with the idea that nothing’s important. p.459

I told him Emma and I had been painting. He said he’d been wondering if God existed. p392

…sometimes when he thought it had gotten too highbrow he would say with a smile, ‘It’s only rock and roll.’ p.412

Even as a young man I was always aware that death was the one absolute certainty about life. It didn’t reduce my feeling of buoyancy, it pushed me into a kind of colossal, obsessive activity. p.417