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MOBY I have a question. I was listening to ''Heathen'' yesterday. The song ''Sunday'' -- to what extent is it based on living in New York after September 11?
BOWIE It was all written before. Every single song.
MOBY That's so bizarre. The lyrics on that?
BOWIE Ah, tell me about it. I know.
EW ''Nothing remains'' is the first line....
MOBY Listen to it even closer. It's chilling.
BOWIE Yeah. ''Nothing remains. We could run when the rain slows. Look for the cars or signs of life.''
EW And Moby, you have a song called ''Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday)'' on your new album. Your birthday is September 11.
MOBY I've been asked whether certain songs might allude to September 11, but they were written before. I think we're like farm animals before an earthquake.
BOWIE Yeah. They snuffle these things. As far as my album goes, the danger is that I don't want it to reflect that situation particularly at all, because in fact that crock of songs came out of a general feeling of anxiety I've had in America for a number of years. It wasn't that localized -- bang! -- thing that happened in September. We both live in New York. So it's not so unlikely that you're going to have a sense of angst in anything that's recorded in New York or by New Yorkers.
MOBY New York has inspired more remarkable music than any other city I can think of. I mean, you've had a couple.
BOWIE Yeah. I always write well in New York. Parts of ''Aladdin Sane''...
MOBY What? ''Jean Genie''?
BOWIE There's my first New York song. I'll tell you who it was written for as well -- Cyrinda Fox. You know Cyrinda Fox? She was the girl in the ''Jean Genie'' commercial. I wrote it for her amusement in her apartment.
MOBY Sexy song.
BOWIE Sexy girl.
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