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

Stick to your instincts.

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

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

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

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