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Bowie's a real man, and I'm a real woman - just like Catherine Deneuve.

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow

What about David Bowie? He's a sexy creature.

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.

The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.

I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want to look like them.

David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver.

Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.

Lady Gaga is proof that David Bowie raped Carol Burnett.

I knew about things like Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground, weirdly, before I knew about David Bowie. I didn't know what David Bowie was, when I was a kid. I thought he was like Visage.

I once went through the dustbin outside David Bowie's house.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.

I think people are just creative, and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.

As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.

When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.

Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.

A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.

The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.

I'd like to go for people I admire - I always gravitate towards the people I idolized when I was a teenager: Cher, Diana Ross, and David Bowie.

David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.

If I say something about David [Bowie], I get 1000 tweets, if I say something about my business just a few! The more personal, the better.

It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.

I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood.

This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick.

Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.

I'm not David Bowie. Who are we kidding? At the end of the day, I'm the same person I've always been. I'm Don Garvey's son from up the road.

David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.

David Bowie's music is a moving target. Just when you think you got the bullseye, it shifts. And to his credit, on to death, it's still shifting. David Bowie is a moving target, even after he's gone.

Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.

I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie.

How I love David Bowie.

Bowie's been a huge influence on me. I remember early on, my dad pulling out the 'Diamond Dogs' album, and the cover alone just grabbed my attention. I think I was probably around 12.

As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun.

Bowie has an unusual face. He's neither a man nor a woman. There's this aura of fantasy that surrounds him. He has flair.

Prince didn't want to sound like Michael Jackson. Neither of them wanted to sound like Luther Vandross. They didn't want to sound like David Bowie. They were all different, but brilliant.

As suburbs go, Bromley's not bad. But as David Bowie and Hanif Kureishi have observed, you do want to get out of there quickly.

I love people like Kate Bush and Stevie Nicks and David Bowie - people that project themselves as characters and that contextualizes the music.

David Bowie used to cover loads of people, and there was an element of "David Bowie did it, so we wanted to do it," because we're kind of obsessed [with him].

With the groups who asked me to join them - like the Rolling Stones, Spirit, David Bowie, and Blood, Sweat & Tears - I said no right away because I was way too much into my own thing.

If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.

Bowie's obviously my biggest influence.

I went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work.

When I was about 13, 14 - 13, I would carry a magic marker with me everywhere I went so I could write the word "Bowie" on everything that wasn't mine.

I am impressed by the way Annie Kevans captured the different types of beauties that have been my inspiration and my muses from my grandmother to artists like David Bowie and Boy George.

David Bowie is such a big influence to me. Everything about him as a person is intriguing to me.

I would probably say David Bowie and Prince are the perfect people. They dress feminine/masculine and they're really sexy. Not many people can wear high heels and look sexier than a woman!