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Real Sadness Is Such An All-encompassing Intense Thing That It Takes You Out Of Your Humdrum Existence. If You Can Still Function, You Want To Show It While It's Peaking. So When People Tell You To Cheer Up, It's Not Always The Best Thing.

There's A Great Temptation To Clean Everything Up And Make Everything More Perfect. You Have To Know When To Stop And Stop Doing It, Or You Might End Up With Something That Sounds Metronomic.

Suburban Houses And Tin Sheds Are Often The Objects Of Ridicule.

As I Define It, Rock And Roll Is Dead. The Attitude Isn't Dead, But The Music Is No Longer Vital. It Doesn't Have The Same Meaning. The Attitude, Though, Is Still Very Much Alive - And It Still Informs Other Kinds Of Music.

By The Time Talking Heads Were Starting, My Feeling Was To Throw Out Everything And Start From Scratch Onstage; Strip It Down To As Close To Zero As You Can Get And Then You Can Make It Yours.