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

Generosity is the key to all relationships. To friendships and bands. That's the golden rule.

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.

In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.

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

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