When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

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.

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.

I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant?

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.

You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more.