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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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