“There’s a particular sound I’m after that I haven’t really got yet and I probably won’t drop this search until I get it…I’ll either crack it on the next album or just retire on it. I think I got quite close to it on ‘Dancing With The Big Boys’…That was quite an adventurous bit of writing in the sense that we didn’t look for any standards. I got very musical over the last couple of years; I stayed away from experimentation…but in ‘Big Boys’ Iggy and I just broke away from all that for the one track. That came nearer to the sound I was looking for more than anything. I’d like to try maybe one more set of pieces like that.”

David Bowie (1984), cited in The Complete David Bowie (2004 edition), p.59