Natasha Khan Quotes

I was a Talking Heads fan from the very beginning.

I used to love Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, and the Human League.

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

I mean, you could have said Elvis Presley was new wave when it happened. I heard Willy DeVille and Tom Petty and to me they were new wave really because they were new.

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

My favorite band is probably The Cure. We can throw Talking Heads in there too, I listen to them a lot. But The Cure.

When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky.

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

I'm like an '80s kid. I was born in the mid-'70s. By the time the '80s kicked in, I'm listening to Dead Kennedys, but I'm also listening to Simple Minds.

Sonic Youth could never really get it together acoustically - quite frankly, it wasn't something we were really that interested in.

I was a big fan of the Rain Parade, Green on Red, X, the Rolling Stones.

Okay, I like the Clash. I like Tears for Fears. I like A-ha.

I don't know what the vintage Sonic Youth sound is.

Sonic Youth is one of my favorite bands.

The early music I heard was Top of the Pops. But in bedrooms, around the house with my brother playing the Sex Pistols, Sham 69 and the Ham and all these groups then going into that sort of mod turnover scene and then going into the New Romantics scene the coming of age myself in the mid-eighties and into the noughties, it was changing.

When I was a kid, I listened to the Doors and the Eagles and bands like the Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, and Blondie.

I'm a fan of Talking Heads going way back.

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

I've been into Sonic Youth since junior high school. I think I kind of have ADD, so it's good music for ADD because it just throws you in different directions all the time. I really like Kim Gordon's voice and Thurston Moore's voice, and I like the guitars going off on tangents.

Hearing things like 'Wake Up' by Lora Logic, or the Raincoats' 'In Love' - that was something I wasn't prepared for. I couldn't hear anything that came before it in the music, and I didn't want to. I was absolutely in love with its out-of-nowhereness.

I love '90s grunge and punk.

When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks... hardcore... like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.

Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.

Like, Mission Of Burma to me always sounded almost like they were part of the British Arty New Wave. I kind of like that. I like not being able to tell the difference.