David Byrne on why Talking Heads won’t make a comeback

There’s a period where music really is essential to you kind of defining who you are and what your place is in the world, and you can never let go of that moment,” Byrne replied. “But then again, you could never could never recreate and replace that moment either.

“There’s plenty of reunion tours and things like that and it’s become an exercise in nostalgia. You can never recreate that moment when people hear things like that for the first time.”

He added: “It has to do with the moment that they heard this music in their life, where they were in their life, when this happened – more than it was us.”

You can watch the conversation in the video above.

Talking Heads broke up in 1991, and have only played together once since, for their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 2002.

Byrne, who has released 10 solo studio albums, explained in 2017 that reforming the legendary New York group would

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