Babatunde Omoroga "Tunde" Adebimpe (born February 26, 1975) is an American musician, actor, director, and visual artist best known as the lead singer of the Brooklyn-based band TV on the Radio.
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.
If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.
No one wanted a job. No one could hold a job. You tend to see those going hand in hand.
Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.
Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.
Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.
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 there for three or four years and came back to the States when I was about ten. I realised that I'd gone from place to place not fitting in. The thing that helped me fit in when moving around and not having a ton of friends was that I could make art. That was the through-line.
I know that being upset without having an avenue to fix anything is a real hard place to be in for too long. But it's even worse thinking that it'll go away if you just ignore it.
My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.
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.
I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York.