Quotes By David Byrne

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

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

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

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 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.

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

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

I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.

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

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

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

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'm guarded; I don't talk much.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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