Occupation: Musician Birth: May 6, 1960
This happened years and years ago, right as our videos were first being played on MTV. The interviewer said, "You guys are getting famous now. Are yo….
Look, up in the sky! It's the sky!.
It's hard to tell a shallow person that they should care more about the feelings of the awkward and the alienated..
I guess the revival of vinyl records is not helping the environmental problem. Although, in some ways, people don't throw records away - I mean, I st….
We've been a band longer than most of the people reading this have been alive..
I don't lose a lot of sleep worrying about aliens, but I think it seems possible that there's life forms beyond our solar system..
For instance, our music, They Might Be Giants, has this element of humor, which is probably the most uptight part of what we include in our music, be….
There have been times I wanted to cry on interview, but it hasn't been because that's what they're trying to conjure. No. I think you have to graduat….
Between me and my wife, there's this joke where I'll be doing some fun interview, and I'll get off the phone and be like, "That guy was an idiot." A ….
That's what I call 'Guiliani Time', my friends. 'We've got a problem. Let's kill it.'.
We're affable guys in They Might Be Giants. We're not gonna do the periscope-down thing, but it's a little bit mind-bending. The biggest struggle is ….
The simplest app on your smartphone requires 40 peoples' purest imagination. The challenges with people on environment, we just have to open some of ….
In an interview John [Linnell] said, 'At a certain point you just get tired of the way the other person breathes,' and I took that pretty hard becaus….
Sometimes you have to wonder if there isn't an ejector seat built into having a popular-music career. We were lucky when we started. We were already ….
If you do believe in science, you really have to actually stand up and make a stand for it. You can't just say, the facts aren't in. Science is alway….
Actually, on a slightly more serious but kind of parallel level, I remember being on Loveline before both hosts ascended into loftier places in the c….
We want to be original. To express our most interesting stuff. But you don't see the word "original" come up very often to describe big bands. Our jo….
I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers..
Sometimes people will ask a real "Why are you beating your wife?" question where there's some assumption built into it, and all you're trying to do i….
Worlds going to hell anyway, have a good time..
I wrote a thirty-second song that I couldn't finish for a year..