People are always throwing things at me that I’ve said and I say that I didn’t mean anything. I don’t exactly lie, I change my mind all the time. I’m an awful liar.īowie: I’m not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. Why should we let these fucking newspaper politicians take over from us?īowie: I change my mind a lot. What else do they think man really wants, a whiskey priest on a mission he doesn’t believe in? I think the most important thing in the world is that the artists should take over this planet because they’re the only ones who can make anything happen. Writing is seeing how close you can come to make it happen, that’s the object of all art. They want to see their picture of you and if they don’t see their picture of you they’re very upset. How do you take the picture that people paint of you?īurroughs: They try to categorize you. I want to meet the Queen and then I’ll know. I can’t articulate it too well, but I have a feeling about it. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it. I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it. They’re not very well-versed in street talk it takes them longer to say it. People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is, at least 50% of them do. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me, because it’s not their profession to do that. I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I don’t want to get other people playing with what they think that I’m trying to do. I can’t let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. Who knows? Perhaps a collaboration has begun perhaps, as Bowie says, they may be the Rogers and Hammerstein of the Seventies.īurroughs: Do you do all your designs yourself?īowie: Yes, I have to take total control myself. A few weeks later, Bowie went to Paris in search of Genet, following leads from Burroughs. Burroughs was impressed by Bowie’s description of the production and promised to help. Bowie wanted to bring the matter to Genet’s attention personally. In fact, a few days after the conversation Bowie asked Burroughs for a favor: A production of The Maids staged by Lindsey Kemp, Bowie’s old mime teacher, had been closed down in London by playwright Jean Genet’s London publisher. There was immediate liking and respect between the two.
The three of us sat in the room for two hours, talking and taking lunch: a Jamaican fish dish, prepared by a Jamaican in the Bowie entourage, with avocados stuffed with shrimp and a beaujolais nouveau, served by two interstellar Bowieites. Burroughs nodded, and the interview/conversation began. He jumped right into a detailed description of the painting and its surrealistic qualities. Soon Bowie entered, wearing three-tone NASA jodhpurs.
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