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" Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren't as strong as some of the others, so you look better. "

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" Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don't completely know or understand, that I'm not adept at, so I'm forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There's a good feeling that comes from that. "

David Byrne

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" Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create. "

" The arts don't exist in isolation. "

" The making of music is profoundly affected by the market. "

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

" I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while. "

" With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters. "

" Physical contact is a human necessity. "

" Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head. "

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

" The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time. "

" Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life. "

" I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.' "

" I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late '70s. It was a good way of getting around the clubs and galleries of the Lower East Side and Soho. "

" Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce. "

David Byrne

Emotional

Divorce

" I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn. "

" PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows. "

" I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster. "

" There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop. "

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

" One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail. "

" I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will. "

" Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms. "

" 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 resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works. "

" I'm proud of 'Stop Making Sense,' but it's a little bit of an albatross; I can't compete with it, but I can't ignore it either. "

" In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense! "

" As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable. "

David Byrne

Things

Idea

" With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why. "

" It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another? "