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

Being able to allow people to be who they are without trying to change them is important.

You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more.

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

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

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.

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