“To work with [Bowie] as a producer…He was a pain in the arse – megalomaniacal, loco! But he had good ideas. The best example I can give you was when I was working on the lyrics to Funtime and he said, ‘Yeah, the words are good. But don’t sing it like a rock guy. Sing it like Mae West.’ Which made it informed of other genres, like cinema. Also, it was a little bit gay. The vocals there became more menacing as a result of that suggestion. He has a work pattern that recurs again and again. If he has an idea about an area of work that he wants to enter, as a first step, he’ll use slide-projects or work for other people to gain experience and gain a little taste of the water before he goes in and does his…And I think he used working with me that way also.”

Iggy Pop, cited in Mojo: David Bowie Special Edition, 2003