{"author":"David Bowie","author_id":"David+Bowie","total_quotes":44,"quotes":[{"text":"And you,You can be meanAnd I,I'll drink all the time'Cause we're lovers,And that is a factYes we're lovers,And that is that.","author":"David Bowie","tags":["bowie","heroes","love"],"id":4403,"author_id":"David+Bowie"},{"text":"I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.","author":"David Bowie","tags":["great","isolation","kind "],"id":5732,"author_id":"David+Bowie"},{"text":"And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.","author":"David Bowie","tags":["thought","plan","me "],"id":12105,"author_id":"David+Bowie"},{"text":"Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas.","author":"David Bowie","tags":["inspirational","philosophical"],"id":58269,"author_id":"David+Bowie"},{"text":"If I could control tomorrow's haze,The darkened shore wouldn't bother me,If I can't control the web we weave,My life will be lost in the fallen leaves...","author":"David Bowie","tags":["control-the-future","death-and-dying"],"id":60763,"author_id":"David+Bowie"},{"text":"I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.","author":"David Bowie","tags":["passion","believe","universe "],"id":67350,"author_id":"David+Bowie"},{"text":"I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.","author":"David Bowie","tags":["water","star","add "],"id":68370,"author_id":"David+Bowie"},{"text":"What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to return books.","author":"David Bowie","tags":["books"],"id":108240,"author_id":"David+Bowie"},{"text":"Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.","author":"David Bowie","tags":["age","struggle","comfort "],"id":114558,"author_id":"David+Bowie"},{"text":"Fame itself... Doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.","author":"David Bowie","tags":["restaurant","fame","you "],"id":119091,"author_id":"David+Bowie"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":44,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}