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

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" People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper. "

" I meet young people who know me and are familiar with my stuff. They know the package. They might have cherry-picked five or six key tunes. That's how it seems to work. I sometimes wonder if they realise they are not getting the whole context. "

" I don't like begging money from producers. "

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

" On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for. "

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

" Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes. "

" You go to a festival, you know you're not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I've made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly. "

" To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware. "

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" I've never had writer's block. "

" Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market. "

" I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible. "

" We tend to mistake music for the physical object. "

" 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. "

" Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop. "

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

" I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election. "

" Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter. "

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

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

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

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

" I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff. "

" One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat, and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn't move to New York to make a fortune. "

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

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

" Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around. "