I don't know how much love David felt - I suspect very little. My main appeal to him was as a nurse, cook, housekeeper, creative ally, and business adviser.
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Related The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork... MIGUEL Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist. MOBY Before I met David Bowie, I was very nervous. I thought, 'Here comes the Thin White Duke, Ziggy ... RORY MACLEAN It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie c... VAL KILMER I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know se... PATRICE O'NEAL I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite ... DANIEL WOODRELL I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and Da... JOAQUIN PHOENIX I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, becau... MARK MOTHERSBAUGH If David Bowie wants, I'll put him in my phone book. MADS MIKKELSEN I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. A... MICK JAGGER My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David... MADCHEN AMICK Food is celebratory. People who don't cook don't know how much fun they're missing. LEO BUSCAGLIA I fell in love with pastry because I felt I could be much more creative. It's precise, and you d... JOHNNY IUZZINI I suspect Obama did not know he was recording Angela Merkel's cell phones. PETER THIEL I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I lo... ALMA GUILLERMOPRIETO Don't get married until you're certain that you're marrying the right girl. How did I kn... BRIAN WILSON I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I ... PATRICIA MARX As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie. IMAN Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let... MARIANNE FAITHFULL I think people know that I love food, but maybe people don't know that I cook a lot. ZOEY DEUTCH I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it wa... KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bi... CLIVE OWEN I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into th... BEBE REXHA I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and... FAMKE JANSSEN I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sou... SALLY PEARSON I don't know if I am a good cook, but I am a dedicated cook. STELLAN SKARSGARD I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my iden... LEBRON JAMES Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't ha... GWEN STEFANI I have dreams of becoming a professional pastry chef and having a little bakery - that's how muc... KIM BARNOUIN If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I c... KAREN BLACK I'm getting asked a lot, 'You don't have kids, so how do you know how to act like a moth... WINONA RYDER I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a polit... HAMILTON JORDAN I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant. CALVIN TRILLIN My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He... MACAULAY CULKIN I suspect they'll go forward. I know how they feel about David. KITTY LAGARETA I didn't cook that much as a kid. My mother was cooking, and I was her helper. We made dishes to... ALEX GUARNASCHELLI I don't know if I have good habits, but I'm very devoted to writing. I'm very compulsive... ROBERT LOPEZ In my creative life, David Bowie is definitely an enormous influence on me, being one of rock's ... SCOTT WEILAND I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name ... FKA TWIGS I think people are 'just creative,' and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan... RONNIE WOOD As I grew up, I always refused to cook Indian food very vehemently, and to this day, I don't coo... GURINDER CHADHA I pretty much taught myself how to cook. My mother was a great cook, but she was a '50s cook. KAREN TEDESCO I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, ... NATALIE WOOD I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to coo... KAMALA HARRIS Before every show, I would call my mother and say, 'Mummy, I don't know how I will sing toda... SONU NIGAM I don't blame people who suspect my performance. My own mind suspects it. How can I blame them? SRI CHINMOY I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people... OMAR SHARIF I don't know how to write love letters. FRIDA KAHLO As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so man... RICK WAKEMAN I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much... PETER JACKSON I don't speak to my brother every week - doesn't mean I don't love him. KIM CATTRALL I don't like to do much with my hair - which is good, because I don't know how! I just alway... CHYLER LEIGH I'm not a DJ - I don't know how to scratch or mix records, but I know how to party, and I kn... AMBER ROSE My dad was in the restaurant business, but I didn't really think about following him. Had I done... DAVID CHANG I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood. DYLAN MCDERMOTT There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanline... AUDREY HEPBURN Sometimes I'll go to the grocery store and buy a bunch of groceries as though I knew how to cook... MIKE BIRBIGLIA I have never really cooked, don't know how to use my dishwasher, and subsist mainly on prepared ... JERRY SALTZ I'm not a DJ, I don't know how to scratch and I don't know how to mix, but I do know how... AMBER ROSE I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I... DAN HILL I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hun... RUTGER HAUER Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands. NORAH JONES I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know... BILLY GRAHAM I have loved music so much from when I was little, and I don't know whether it was because I saw... LISA MARIE PRESLEY I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I... RICHARD PRICE I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it was... GERALDINE BROOKS Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. No... CAITLYN JENNER I've always been curious about how much of our cultural baggage we bring to what and how we read... CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE It's very sad, very sad, ... He was just as close to me as if he was my own grandson, and I felt tha... ROSA PARKS JLo and I did not get along well when we worked together. I don't think there's love lost. I... CARRIE ANN INABA My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug... SUSAN HAYWARD I've realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincibl... KRISTI YAMAGUCHI I don't know how to put it, but I don't have many friends. All my friends circle was in Madr... MAHESH BABU I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turn... NANCY CARTWRIGHT I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbo... MAMIE GUMMER When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was ra... JOHN FULLER When I first started cooking, I was very much an intuitive cook when it came to taste, but that didn... CARLA HALL I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I'... ANTHONY HOPKINS I've always felt that if I examine myself too much, I'll find out what I know and don't ... CLINT EASTWOOD I don't like my whole life dragged out. I don't want anyone to know about me, because I don&... LILLY PULITZER I was a very, I think, lonely kid, very introspective. I felt very much at odds with my environment ... MAXINE KUMIN I don't cook fancy every day. I don't think anybody can, nor would it be very good for you. AARTI SEQUEIRA Food is a big part of my culture, so everyone knows how to cook. When I came to America and asked a ... ISABELLA ROSSELLINI I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice&... BARRY SCHWARTZ Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the reali... GABRIEL BYRNE It was a long time ago: 'Angela's Ashes' by Frank McCourt. It was a great story that was... ISABEL GILLIES I'm not a big eater. I'm a terrible cook, and so I don't cook for myself. CAROLINE PAUL Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them pr... TODD ENGLISH And I don't cook, either. Not as long as they still deliver pizza. TIGER WOODS I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was l... SELENA GOMEZ People come up to me all the time and say, 'Oh, I love to watch Food Network,' and I ask the... MICHAEL SYMON David Bowie is such a big influence to me. Everything about him as a person is intriguing to me. LEONA LEWIS As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when... JOHN MULANEY I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create ... BRIAN ENO I don't eat Puerto Rican food in L.A. because it's just too much, too addicting, but I know ... JUSTINA MACHADO I got interested in reading very early, because a story was read to me, by Hans Christian Andersen, ... ALICE MUNRO I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it... ROBERT DE NIRO I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business. MARTHA STEWART I'm not a cook. I like to watch the Food Network, but I don't like to cook. JANEANE GAROFALO
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DAVID BOWIE I'm wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It's ... DAVID BOWIE I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and sin... DAVID BOWIE The name Zahra was to have been lman's own name at birth, but a senior member of the family chan... DAVID BOWIE I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doin... DAVID BOWIE I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I've done for 25 years. I don't need the mone... DAVID BOWIE I've always tended to write songs prolifically. DAVID BOWIE My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity. DAVID BOWIE I have all the admiration in the world for somebody like Bono, who really puts himself on the line a... DAVID BOWIE I don't have a problem with ageing - in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and ob... DAVID BOWIE I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating character... DAVID BOWIE You get to a certain age, and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of cove... DAVID BOWIE Frankly, if I could get away with not having to perform, I'd be very happy. It's not my favo... DAVID BOWIE The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E... DAVID BOWIE If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But... DAVID BOWIE I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events tog... DAVID BOWIE Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part ... DAVID BOWIE I was never particularly fond of my voice. DAVID BOWIE I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and rec... DAVID BOWIE I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Zigg... DAVID BOWIE I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a... DAVID BOWIE I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time... DAVID BOWIE But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people. DAVID BOWIE I couldn't have written things like 'Low' and 'Heroes,' those particular albums,... DAVID BOWIE It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth. DAVID BOWIE I'm not very articulate. DAVID BOWIE When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30. DAVID BOWIE I'll tell you who I absolutely adore: Ian McEwan. DAVID BOWIE I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to sa... DAVID BOWIE I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup... DAVID BOWIE I'm very good at what I do, and I don't turn my hand to something unless I'm very good a... DAVID BOWIE I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn... DAVID BOWIE