David Bowie // "It was a Zen teacher at a temple that I like a lot in Kyoto and he’s not often there…but we were fortunate enough to have lunch with him last time we were there. And it was most peculiar, out of nowhere he suddenly said, 'Religion is over and it lies in the arts.' That the spiritual life will be in the vessel of the visual and musical arts. Which I thought was quite a stunning comment coming from this 70-year-old Zen master… I think people are letting go of the idea of organized religion. I think, I can’t remember what the name of the philosopher was, but in the early part of the century he said that we have to kill God to reinvent him. And I think that is very much playing itself out in the later part of this century. I think we have to find the focus of where our religious strength lies in an entirely different area from the archaic and almost medieval forms that we’re sort of expected to supplant ourselves to… I think we’re finding the materials of a new religion but I think we have to find and develop a new kind of discipline. I think there is no real sense of purpose without a shaping of fragments. I think we have the fragments and the pieces of a new way, but I think we have to construct a path out of those pieces. I think we have the bits of concrete and it’s merely crazy paving at the moment but we have to develop a form. Presumably that’s what we’ll be doing in our new millennium, is developing the form. We have the material."