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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

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

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

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

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

I couldn’t take pictures of green rolling hills.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Architecture theory is very interesting.

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

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

I’m guarded; I don’t talk much.

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

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.