"When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another."

"The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove."

"It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music."

"I'm guarded; I don't talk much."

"I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary."

"I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same."

"I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff."

"I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn't mean you don't have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be."

"Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context."

"The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information."

"Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace."

"Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market."

"Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop."

"Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule."

"Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce."

"There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior."

"I've got "nothing "to say most of the time."

"People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper."

"Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively."

"We live in ugly times."

"It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas."

"There's more good music being made now than ever before."

"Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?"

"I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition."