By 1987, Bowie had begun to distance himself from the record. He told one interviewer that it was "more Nile's album than mine", which Rodgers disagreed on when asked about in 1998. Bowie later said that the success of the album caused him to hit a creative low point in his career which lasted the next few years. "I remember looking out over these waves of people were coming to hear this record played live and thinking, 'I wonder how many Velvet Underground albums these people have in their record collections?' I suddenly felt very apart from my audience. And it was depressing, because I didn't know what they wanted." After his follow-up albums "Tonight" (1984) and "Never Let Me Down" (1987) were critically dismissed, Bowie formed the grunge-precursor band Tin Machine in an effort to regain his artistic vision, later dismissing this period as his "Phil Collins years".