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

Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it’s kind of tortuous.

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

I wouldn’t consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It’s just not in my scope now. I’d rather stick needles in my eyes.

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

I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I’ve done that, the lyrics come last.

My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer.

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

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.

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

I’d love to a duet with Luther Vandross.

I couldn’t take pictures of green rolling hills.

So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn’t want to use big pad chords everywhere. All of the songs are built up of small melodies...

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.

I had demons and felt socially inept.

Even if your job is a professional singer, we still dork out at home.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

I’m a terrible dancer. The worst.

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

You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I’ve had it. I haven’t got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I...

Proving I’m a good mother is the one achievement I’m most proud of. It’s brought out the best in me.

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

Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life.

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

I’m definitely a pop artist at heart.

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

And when I started, I also programmed the drum machines with the intention of taking them off and replacing them with acoustic drums.

The whole world has changed much since the ’80’s. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn’t the case in the early ’80’s.

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

Every time I show up to do something here it’s considered a comeback. If I came into town and they didn’t call it that, I’d be disappointed.

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

I’m just passionately in love with my kids.

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

At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small...

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

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

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.

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’m terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it’s taken me this long to realise you don’t have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.

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

But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.

When I was working with David Cassidy at the Rio, I made an album of updated versions of some 1970s disco tunes. I had a blast.

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

I have the life of Riley. I take my kids to school, do a bit of work in the afternoon, pick my kids up, microwave a meal, hang out with my kids, and work for...

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

If I have no children what would be the point of living.

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

I didn’t want to be stuck to rigid tempos. I mean, a band should speed up and slow down. They shouldn’t do it too much, but they do.

When my kids are in college, maybe I’ll drag my fishnets and high heels out.

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