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

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

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

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

Stick to your instincts.

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.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.