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.

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.

I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

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

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

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