Radio with Pictures - David Bowie on tour

They were probably short of a good story that week.

– David Bowie, on making the cover of Time magazine

It was a three week album. I'd written the whole thing and arranged it before we got into the studio, so it was really just the work of making it sound right. So it was started and mixed within three weeks.

– David Bowie on Let's Dance

I think we’ve been on the road since March of this year, so that’s eight extraordinary months, and I feel as though we could keep on touring. It’s the longest I’ve done. It feels the shortest I’ve done, it really does. It’s just been so good.

– David Bowie, on his Serious Moonlight world tour

... I only sort of fart about with instruments at the best of times when I play them — I'm not a great musician by any means.

– David Bowie, on being asked if Let's Dance is a singer's album