As much as we love playing the small clubs, we'd really like to get ourselves in front of a larger audience. I'm not talking about arenas or anything, but nice theaters and larger clubs.
Being in Lower Manhattan at the time, we were tuned into what was going on-not just with the music, but also with the graffiti art and breakdancers.
Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on.
Everybody's going through a lot of stress these days, no matter how well off you are and how many advantages you have, it's a stressful time in everybody's lives.
I don't know how much influence we really had, because we never put our pictures on the albums or anything and we never really promoted the Talking Heads connection, because we wanted to keep it separate from Talking Heads.
I remember going for the first time to a place called The Roxy in New York because you can see people breakdancing there. That's the only reason I went! It's amazing, kids are still doing that.
I think Mariah Carey did a pretty amazing job with that song Fantasy, which is basically a re-write of Genius Of Love. We're very grateful that she did it because it's helping to put our kids through school.
I'd like to think that we've had some influence. When I listen to Destiny's Child or even Missy Elliott, I hear the influence.
If a band is really good and the chemistry is unique, it should continue. But I guess David is just very happy doing his solo career. He's got a different band every time he goes out.
One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.
Our studio is kind of built into our home, so it's a place you can ramble, and we can do a pretty good recording here. The band is really comfortable her.
The economy being what it is right now I think it's better if you're on a package with a bunch of bands-sort of spread the love that way.
There is not that much of a generation gap these days.
We always loved Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's version's called It's Nasty.
We get these overzealous young men and their girlfriends. It's happened occasionally where one of them will lean up against the front of the stage and the guy is behind her, and it starts off as just dancing and then it gets into something more.
We have a large band with eight people.
We have such a good band and we wanted to record while we were all still together, before anybody went off to work with some superstar, or whatever.
We used to really feel like the band was our family.
We're the Tom Tom Club and our studio is the Clubhouse. It a way of making it a little more personal.
When I was in college, I studied painting. I thought, I'll do this rock 'n' roll thing for a few years. But I just haven't done that well enough yet.
You never know when one of your bandmembers is going to have to work for Sting. Or even, God forbid, Michael Bolton.
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