bowie himself was surprised with how things came together with the band, saying, "i'd never wanted to be in a band until we got together. and as we were getting together, it wasn't really occurring to me that this is what i wanted to do. it took a week or so of actually being in the studio and working, and then i think we fully realized the potential, musically, for what we were doing and wanted to stick with it. i was quite happy to go off and make a solo album. i was quite excited about a couple of things i was doing, which i brought into the band and which were irrevocably changed. but that's the nature of the band."