Bowie always knows what to say

“If you really want to lose all your friends and all of the relationships that you ever held dear, [cocaine] is the drug to do it with. Cocaine severs any link you have with another human being. Maintaining is the problem. You retain a superficial hold on reality so that you can get through the things that you know are absolutely necessary for your survival. But when that stars to break up, which inevitably it does - around 1975 everything was starting to break up. I would work at songs for hours and hours and days and days and then realize that I had done absolutely nothing.”  — David Bowie

“Aladdin Sane, that’s me having a go at trying to redefine Ziggy, and making him what people wanted. The Ziggy Stardust album told the whole story. There was nothing more to say. And I knew when I was making Aladdin Sane that the bottom had just fallen out of the whole idea. That was a tough period and I felt for the first time and the only time like I was working for somebody else. Yeah, Aladdin Sane was kind of a sellout” — David Bowie