It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.

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

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.

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

Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.

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.

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