I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice.

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

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.

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

I tend to like people that are generous and give other people the benefit of the doubt.

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 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.