“David Bowie’s background vocals…I love them on his records, I love them when he did them on my record. It’s not the kind of part I would have ever come up with if you left me alone with a computer program for a year. But David hears those parts. Plus he’s got a freaky voice and he can go up high and do that. It’s very, very beautiful. And he’s a great singer.”

Lou Reed, liner notes for NYC Man (2003)