I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

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.

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

It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.

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

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 wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes.