<P> Of recording the album, Bowie said: </P> <P> I think this album comes from a very different emotional place (than previous albums). That's the passing of time, which has brought maturity and a willingness to relinquish full control over my emotions, let them go a bit, start relating to other people, which is something that's been happening to me slowly--and, my God, it's been uphill--over the last ten or twelve years . I feel a lot freer these days to be able to talk about myself and about what's happened to me, because I've been able to face it . For many years, everything was always blocked out . The day before was always blocked out . I never wanted to return to examine anything that I did particularly . But the stakes have changed . I feel alive, in a real sense . </P> <P> On the album's title, Bowie said: </P> <P> White noise itself is something that I first encountered on the synthesizer many years ago . There's black noise and white noise . I thought that much of what is said and done by the whites is white noise .' Black ties' is because, for me, musically, the one thing that really turned me on to wanting to be a musician, wanting to write, was black music, American black music--Little Richard and John Coltrane in the 50s . The first artist I really sort of dug was Little Richard when I was about eight years old . I found it all very exciting--the feeling of aggression that came through the arrangements . It was like breaking up the sky--his ordinary voice . That's what triggered my interest in American black music . That led me to the blues, John Lee Hooker and all those guys, and for a number of years I worked with rhythm and blues bands, and my participation in them formed my own black ties in that area of music . </P>

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