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.

And I think my spaceship knows which way to go.

Turn and face the strange.

I'm a blackstar. I'm a blackstar.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

The sun machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party.

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.