When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.
I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.
From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.
Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.
We wanted to sit down and conceptually work out songs.
Most people imagine music playing in their heads, but some hallucinate music; some cannot sleep because of the soundtrack in their mind.
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
There were a lot of heads turning when people found out I was doing music and when they found out it was country, they were like, 'What?'