[Eno] got me off narration which I was intolerably bored with... narrating stories, or doing little vignettes of what at the time I thought was happening in America and putting it on my albums in a convoluted fashion... Signer-songwriter-askew... and Brian really opened my eyes to the idea of processing, to the abstract of communication.

Bowie on Eno in 1978, Strange Fascination, 2001 edition.