Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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