"I think we treat the whole thing as gentlemen, so it doesn’t...we don’t really get frayed tempers, but artistic temper sort of shows. I think the way we solve it is that one or the other will leave the studio for a couple of hours and let the other get on with it...follow everything through. We never throw an idea out of hand immediately without trying it out."

David Bowie, interviewed on New York radio, July 1979