I don't want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I'm doing. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up. — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share
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
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
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
Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun. — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share
Most of the bands that I really like no longer exist. That might just be because I'm in my thirties or whatever. But I… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share
Being 15 and like a punk in the DIY community, basically being with a group of people like no one else, it was the… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share
