It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which, of course, I've never bought into - with any artist. It's just not a real thing.

The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

I guess, people like myself and Roxy Music that had a different agenda about taking up music.

The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno.

People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy this record."

Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.