Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it.
If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.
We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.
I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more.
I'm not going to hold my breath because life goes on. Life is too short to sit around moaning about what could have been or what was.
It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.
When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.
We wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes.
Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.
Being able to allow people to be who they are without trying to change them is important.
We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.
Sometimes, you have to go through a phase whether you like it or not.
I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.
Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.
There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.
In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.
Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.
Generosity is the key to all relationships. To friendships and bands. That's the golden rule.
There's a tolerance and this is a really big thing when it comes to really increasing the whole sense of getting something done and boosting the economy. Obviously not everything is going to be a bonanza, some things are going to be awful, but wouldn't it be great if we had a fantastic window dresser to do something with those windows on Fairfield green and those Victoria's Secret windows. I love girls in bras in panties, but these are just mannequins. Wouldn't it be great if some local artists got together and said, "Hey, Victoria's Secret, let's do something!" We need that.
Tom Tom Club has a whole different attitude and approach, not just musically but in performance. Some people said they liked it.
We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.
It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.
I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.
We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.
