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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.

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I Had Enormous Self-image,

David Bowie

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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.

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It Is Amazing How A New Child Can Refocus One's Direction Seconds After Its Birth. Everything Falls Into A Feeling Of 'rightness'.

I Went Through All The Musicians In My Life Who I Admire As Bright, Intelligent, Virtuosic Players.

Sweet Head, Give You Sweet Head.

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I'm Very At Ease, And I Like It. I Never Thought I Would Be Such A Family-oriented Guy; I Didn't Think That Was Part Of My Makeup. But Somebody Said That As You Get Older You Become The Person You Always Should Have Been, And I Feel That's Happening To Me. I'm Rather Surprised At Who I Am, Because I'm Actually Like My Dad!

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Some Of Us, I Think, Us Small, Pompous Arty Ones Probably Read Too Much George Steiner And Kind Of Got The Idea That We Were Entering To This Kind Of Post-culture Age And That We'd Better Do Something Postmodernist - Quickly, Before Somebody Else Did.

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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.

I Think Fame Itself Is Not A Rewarding Thing. The Most You Can Say Is That It Gets You A Seat In Restaurants.

I Wanted To Rewrite How Rock Music Was Perceived.

Hey Man, I Gotta Straighten My Face. This Mellow Thighed Chick Just Put My Spine Out Of Place.

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I've Never Responded Well To Entrenched Negative Thinking.

I Believe That I Often Bring Out The Best In Somebody's Talents.

I've Always Been Very Chauvinistic, Even In My Boy-obsessed Days. But I Was Always A Gentleman. I Alwaysd Treated My Boys Like Real Ladies. Always Escorted Them Properly And, In Fact, I Suppose If I Were A Lot Older - Like 40 Or 50 - I'd Be A Wonderful Sugar Daddy To Some Little Queen Down In Kensington. I'd Have A Houseboy Named Richard To Order Around.

The Name Bowie Just Appealed To Me When I Was Younger. I Was Into A Kind Of Heavy Philosophy Thing When I Was 16 Years Old, And I Wanted A Truism About Cutting Through The Lies And All That.

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Since Early Middle Ages When People Generally Taking Away The Barbarity Of Their Like, Were Pretty Content. Although It Was All An Illicit Contentment, What With The Slave Systems All Over The World, In England Especially, The Peasants And The Master, Etc. People Were Incredibly Content.

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