![Lorde:]()
Lorde: "He was a piece of bright pleated silk we could stretch out or fold up small inside ourselves when we needed to. "
![Kate Bush:]()
Kate Bush: "I'm struck by how the whole country has been flung into mourning and shock. Shock, because someone who had already transcended into immortality could actually die. He was ours."
![Placebo's Brian Molko:]()
Placebo's Brian Molko: "Float around the ether, David. Bounce gracefully off planets light-years away as you become one with the Universe, as you dive into the Great Unknown."
![Carrie Brownstein:]()
Carrie Brownstein: "It feels like we lost something elemental, as if an entire color is gone. "
![Paddy Considine:]()
Paddy Considine: "On the 5th day he gave us Blackstar. Then he left. Watch the skies. You will see his light. Thank you David Bowie. You helped this kid dream."
![Caitlin Moran:]()
Caitlin Moran: "In all the cold, silent, black emptiness of space, we were the ones who had David Bowie. Thank you, you beautiful man. Thank you for giving us us."
![Creeper's Will Gould:]()
Creeper's Will Gould: "If I close my eyes I'm still 15 years old, lonely, terrified, moving schools and at night watching you perform on a VHS cassette. I cannot begin to thank you."
![Arcade Fire:]()
Arcade Fire: "The world is more bright and mysterious because of him, and we will continue to shout prayers into the atmosphere he created."
![Cameron Esposito:]()
Cameron Esposito: "He made art, he was art. He showed me my gender & made me safe."
![Iggy Pop:]()
Iggy Pop: "David’s friendship was the light of my life. I never met such a brilliant person. He was the best there is."
![Xan Brooks:]()
Xan Brooks: "Britain today is that bit more like flat, monochrome Kansas & a bit less like Oz. "
![Commander Chris Hadfield:]()
Commander Chris Hadfield: " Ashes to ashes, dust to stardust. Your brilliance inspired us all. Goodbye Starman."
![The Charlatans' Tim Burgess:]()
The Charlatans' Tim Burgess: "He zipped a few years forward every so often, had a look round and then travelled back to let us regular folk know what the future held in store."
![Brian Eno:]()
Brian Eno: "I received an email from him seven days ago. It ended with this sentence: 'Thank you for our good times, Brian. they will never rot'. I realise now he was saying goodbye."
![Kanye West:]()
Kanye West: "David Bowie was one of my most important inspirations, so fearless, so creative, he gave us magic for a lifetime."
![Madonna:]()
Madonna: "He was both masculine and feminine. Funny and serious. Clever and wise. Thank you David Bowie. I owe you a lot. The world will miss you."
![The Who's Pete Townshend:]()
The Who's Pete Townshend: "We have also lost a wonderful clown whose combined sense of mischief and creativity delightedly touched our hearts. David Bowie was my Salvador Dali.”
![Guillermo del Toro:]()
Guillermo del Toro: "Bowie existed so all of us misfits learned that an oddity was a precious thing. He changed the world forever."
![Alex Turner:]()
Alex Turner: "He's sort of in the DNA of every record. He’s been built-in for a long time."
![Nile Rodgers:]()
Nile Rodgers: "He was a real innovator - he didn't just do music, he did ideas "
![Ricky Gervais:]()
Ricky Gervais: "Our relationship was bizarre and surreal, and I felt so privileged to know him"