Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.
I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it.
You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more.
I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant?
Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.
We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.
We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.
We're not getting paid. We have these great musicians with us and it gives us a real charge. And the audience gives us a charge, because they keep it interesting all the time.
Talking Heads, for me and Chris, was a very personal thing that we shared with a lot of people. In a way, I'm glad it's over, because it allows us to move beyond the restrictions that followed.
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.
Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.
If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.
I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.
Sometimes, you have to go through a phase whether you like it or not.
David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.
I think the idea of having the show divided into two parts was that Tom Tom Club opened for Talking Heads in Europe, and it was the best we'd ever had as an opening act.
It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.
When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.
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.
