Bowie is ridiculously charming. People say how cool and icy he is but I don’t think so. He’s like someone’s dad or something. He’s so down to earth. He phoned me up the other day - he wants us to do a cover version of one of his songs - and he left this really funny message on my answer machine. I’ve got this bit from Performance on my answer machine and he said, “Ah, Performance, Nicolas Roeg, 1971.” Like some kind of Geography teacher or something. He’s very approachable and very nice. —Brett Anderson, Vox (1994)