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 don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

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

We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.

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.

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