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. — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
I was born in St. Louis and lived in Pittsburgh for a bit, before my family moved to Nigeria, where they're from. We lived… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
I feel like now if you're going to start a band you have to have an Instagram full of yourself looking a certain way,… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
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… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it.… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
The cynicism doesn't come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away. — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
I've had terrible, terrible, terrible shows where I just thought, "That was off-key" or I forgot lines or I thought I looked like an… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up. — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
I know that being upset without having an avenue to fix anything is a real hard place to be in for too long. But… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
I was living in a loft with Dave Sitek - this loft full of people just working on their stuff. Some were painting, some… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image