It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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