I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.

I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

Sometimes, you have to go through a phase whether you like it or not.

We wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes.

We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.

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.

There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.