That's right, The Roots bandleader and drummer still owns his first car. During an interview with Marketplace radio show host Kai Ryssdal, Quest talked about a number of subjects and revealed that he still has his first car.
Questlove: More or less, it's, "How did I get here?" Often when I go back to Philadelphia, I do something called chasing ghosts. I still have my first car and I keep it at my mom's —
Ryssdal: I'm sorry, you still have your first car?
Questlove: And I still utilize it. Yeah. And I go to my mom's house and I get it and usually I drive around — when I go to Philly, I'll drive from like midnight to 3 in the morning, literally just chase ghosts. And the thing I always do is when I go past the place where The Roots used to busk on Fifth and South Street, I'm always like, yo, like back in 1992, I thought 1999 was going to be the future, you know. Let alone would I still be a thing in 2018. I mean, I'm not one of those "knock on wood" people, that I don't want to jinx it. But —
Elsewhere in the interview, he also talks about The Roots becoming Jimmy Fallon's house band and initially didn't see it as an opportunity to further his career.
"Not once did I think like, 'Oh, this could benefit you or this could actually lead to open doors.' I just thought, you know, because I was reading the op-eds and even though I love being underestimated — someone had wrote in a blog once, like, 'Oh, this is a sad day for music because watching The Roots accept this Tonight Show gig will be like watching Miles Davis busking in a New York subway for change.' And I was actually like, 'Good. This is exactly what I want,'" Quest said. "I want to be underestimated because I wanted to — not saying that it was uncool — but I wanted to make, I wanted to kill all perceptions of this being a square gig."
