Even though it was enormously successful, there was no growth going on at all. They were very hard years to get through, to find any sense of purpose… - David Bowie

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Even though it was enormously successful, there was no growth going on at all. They were very hard years to get through, to find any sense of purpose. I wasn't allowing myself the service of being who I really am as an artist. I'd given myself dreadful parameters in confining myself to merely what I presumed people wanted.
I never wanted to do this. I never wanted to be out there pleasing people. I wanted to be really stubborn and have people like what I like, not give them what they like.