![]() Livewire magazine, 16 June 2002 Live performancesĭavid Bowie performed ‘Heathen (The Rays)’ 118 times between 20. We are arriving and departing all at the same time. The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We create so many circles on this straight line we’re told we’re traveling. He makes a couple of casual appearances in the Old, but only as an irritating obstacle. The devil only really appears in the New Testament. I just think of it as all dysfunctionalism of one kind of another. I don’t believe in some force outside of ourselves that creates bad things. There, I’m using that old language again. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts. On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. It’s an odd feeling, like something else is guiding you, although forcing your hand is more like it. In the distance a car was driving slowly past the reservoir and these words were just streaming out and there were tears running down my face. It was early in the morning, the sun was rising and through the windows I could see two deer grazing down below in the field. There was something so ominous and final about it. Strangely, some songs you really don’t want to write.
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