For me to be able to reach out to other people throughout all this has been great, people want to hear from me and hear my music right now so it keep….

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigare….

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music..

Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost..

What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do ….

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..

We must be as pure as our music..

I am not an African. I am an American..

People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts..

Politics is a highly tribal business..

No one survives life..

Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves unde….

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company..

Talent is only the starting point..

Charge for something and make more than you spend..

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire..

Strength is for service, not status.

Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me..