Stick to your instincts.

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.

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.

Tom Tom Club has a whole different attitude and approach, not just musically but in performance. Some people said they liked it.

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

Being able to allow people to be who they are without trying to change them is important.

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.