Events Quote by 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. We lived…

— 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 certain way,…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

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

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

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

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

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

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 long. But…

— 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 a horrible…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

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