David Bowie Trying Quotations

The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.

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.

You can't put down anybody. You can just try and understand. The emphasis shouldn't be on revolution, it should be on communication. Because it's just going to get more uptight. The more the revolution goes on, and there will be a civil war sooner or later.

... And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through...

I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.

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.