All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

I don’t care how impossible it seems.

I would be concerned that it could be characterized as being a diktat from Brussels.

ruined” by bad words — my own and others. In Beyonce’s song “Irreplaceable,” she rhymes “minute” with “minute,” and I cringe every time I hear it (partly because by that point I’m singing along). On...

It’s obvious that advertising pays, otherwise people wouldn’t advertise — so now we’re getting on that bandwagon.

I read the NY Times but I don’t trust all of it.

Frank Lloyd Wright… his things were beautiful but not very functional.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

Language as a PrisonThe Philippines did have a written language before the Spanish colonists arrived, contrary to what many of those colonists subsequently claimed. However, it was a language that some theorists believe was mainly...

It’s an exciting opportunity to have people out playing before the season starts.

I pick up a copy of Newsweek on the plane and immediately notice how biased, slanted, and opinionated all the U.S. newsmagazine articles are. Not that the Euro and British press aren’t biased as well–they...

People need to be shocked out of their complacency about tobacco,

I subscribe to the myth that an artist’s creativity comes from torment. Once that’s fixed, what do you draw on?

I couldn’t take pictures of green rolling hills.

There may be some amendments here or there, but as long as the proposal that has been announced remains substantially intact, I will be happy.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea– do I have to choose between the two?

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

The proposals are essential for the enhancement of consumer confidence,

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I’m someone else.

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

I need clarification of the measures which France intends to put in place to ensure that its beef exports do not expose consumers in other countries to a higher risk than French consumers.

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

Architecture theory is very interesting.

I would expect the earliest we can bring this (temporary ban) in would be January 1. It will last six months but of course it will be under continual assessment.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

the very minimum necessary to begin the process of re-building consumer confidence in beef.

As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn’t dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn’t have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive —...

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

We can say we’re trying to reduce the risk to the minimum but there is no such thing as risk-free,

I’m guarded; I don’t talk much.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

Distance marketing is currently dominated by classic techniques such as mail and telephone, but the directive is also a key step in creating a regulatory framework to build consumer confidence in electronic commerce, inside a...

Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard’s songwriting and guitar playing, it’s somewhat satisfying he’s not yet achieved household-name status. It serves him right for being so good.

I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

weeks rather than months.

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

required an immediate response from the European Union.

It is the price which must be paid to restore public confidence in our commitment to protect public health.

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

We need to find out more about the source of the disease before we can decide when to lift the ban,

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

That’s the one for my tombstone… Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?

I didn’t have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

This is a major breakthrough that will provide consumers with much needed protection and rights,

I had demons and felt socially inept.

It’s a very democratic instrument, everyone is reduced to the same amateur level.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.