Quotes By David Byrne

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

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

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

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.

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

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

I'm guarded; I don't talk much.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Architecture theory is very interesting.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

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

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

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

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.

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

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

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

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