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.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Consumers now clearly want copper-fastened guarantees that these controls are being implemented,

I’ve been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I’ve learned to resist that.

I expect that we will achieve consensus on Monday,

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

That’s the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe–but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn’t be surprised if poetry–poetry...

The operators are not button-pushers, … It’s a give and take with the performers. In my work, technology is a performer.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

very foolish to underestimate the potential for the disease to spread.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols.

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

I wouldn’t be surprised if poetry – poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs – is how the world works. The...

I have no nostalgia for the location whatsoever. I appreciate what Hilly did. It’s about his policy. It’s about those creative business decisions that he made. It’s not about the building.

It was a uniform that signified that one was a kind of downtown aesthete; not necessarily nihilistic, but a monk in the bohemian order.

The consumers’ trust has been eroded and the EU must restore public confidence in its food science and controls,

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

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.