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

It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't ….

Sometimes, you have to go through a phase whether you like it or not..

Generosity is the key to all relationships. To friendships and bands. That's the golden rule..

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….

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 o….

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

I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant?.

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

We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together..

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

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild..

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

I'm not going to hold my breath because life goes on. Life is too short to sit around moaning about what could have been or what was..

I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech..

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others'….

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

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

There's a tolerance and this is a really big thing when it comes to really increasing the whole sense of getting something done and boosting the econ….

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

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