"After our short portrait session was over and we were packing up our gear, his assistant came back to the lounge area of the studio and said:

"David says if you want to go to the studio, you can spend some time there and take pictures while he works with the other musicians."

He was funny, he laughed a lot, it sounded as if he was making an impression of himself. You could hear Bromley, he smoked all the time, and he told indiscreet stories about other famous people. Surgically sharp observations on the nature of fame and ego. He noticed me humming his song "The Laughing Gnome" very quietly to myself while I was photographing him, tilted my head, and said, "I have better ones than these, you know." – CHRIS FLOYD

David Bowie,  The Chung King House Of Metal Studio, NYC, July 1999