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.

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

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

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

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

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

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