in 1996, bowie reflected on his time with tin machine: "for better or worse it helped me to pin down what i did and didn’t enjoy about being an artist. it helped me, i feel, to recover as an artist. and i do feel that for the past few years i’ve been absolutely in charge of my artistic path again. i’m working to my own criteria. i’m not doing anything i would feel ashamed of in the future, or that i would look back on and say my heart wasn’t in that."