“I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.” — Tina Weymouth Quote

I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.

You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more.

Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.

We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

It's been fun to just play bass in a band and play live but be in the background.

I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.

Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time.