It's like a singer doing a song he's well-known for. There's a good chance I wrote the song too, so it's not that strange that I should do it. In the past I always felt I had to really concentrate on all my new stuff just to prove that I was doing it, to prove I didn't have to just come out and do Talking Heads' greatest hits. Maybe now I've got that off my chest, I feel I can do it. I'm not going back to those songs because I don't have anything else to do.
Rock music expects so much.
Bands are always expected to change, whereas with some old blues artist, it's the opposite. Occasionally I think I'd like to do an album of other people's songs. But when you get down to it, it's all a crap shoot. I find my friends rarely go to see the blockbusters these days. In some of the songs on the new album, I'm angrier than I have been in a long while.