Babatunde Adebimpe

I was born in St. Louis and lived in Pittsburgh for a bit, before my family moved to Nigeria, where they're from.…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

I feel like now if you're going to start a band you have to have an Instagram full of yourself looking a…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

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

— Babatunde Adebimpe

There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

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

— Babatunde Adebimpe

I've had terrible, terrible, terrible shows where I just thought, "That was off-key" or I forgot lines or I thought I looked…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

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

— Babatunde Adebimpe

Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.

— Babatunde Adebimpe

I know that being upset without having an avenue to fix anything is a real hard place to be in for too…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

I was living in a loft with Dave Sitek - this loft full of people just working on their stuff. Some were…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

— Babatunde Adebimpe

Most of the bands that I really like no longer exist. That might just be because I'm in my thirties or whatever.…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

Being 15 and like a punk in the DIY community, basically being with a group of people like no one else, it…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

I don't want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I'm doing.

— Babatunde Adebimpe

I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York.

— Babatunde Adebimpe

You turn into this desperate dude looking for a shred of attention when you just had so much. It's like, "I'm just…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

I want to be around these positive, expressive people who are doing something different and who also want to get the hell…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

Most of the bands that I really hold in my heart - you don't think about them as bands; they're just the…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

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

— Babatunde Adebimpe

Oftentimes, when music is just blasting out it seems like it's overcompensating for something missing in the song's structure. When I think…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

One second you're having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

Adding instruments to parts of a song and having them somehow find a pocket. That to me was a huge lesson. Like,…

— Babatunde Adebimpe