Babatunde Adebimpe Quotes

Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it’s a party every day.

I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.

You have to be a really talented writer if you’re trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don’t have the focus to do that, really.

Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don’t really believe it. It’s as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.

One second you’re having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite – there’s only lukewarm carrots back there.

No one wanted a job. No one could hold a job. You tend to see those going hand in hand.

There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room.

I was living in a loft with Dave Sitek – this loft full of people just working on their stuff. Some were painting, some were writing. Any plans you had were kind of like a plan for the next two months.

A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.

The cynicism doesn’t come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.

I have nothing against people getting their band back together, but the artists I love marked a time in my life, and to merge that time with now can be personally depressing.

I want to be around these positive, expressive people who are doing something different and who also want to get the hell out of there and don’t want to be around basic human bullshit.