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" 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! "

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" There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior. "

David Byrne

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" Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory. "

" Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together in the studio, it makes financial sense to do more than one song at a time. And it makes more sense, if you're going to all the effort of performing and doing whatever else, if there's a kind of bundle. "

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

" People use irony as a defense mechanism. "

" 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. "

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

" There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking. "

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

" Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down. "

" 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 got nothing to say most of the time. "

" 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? "

" I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don't think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me. "

David Byrne

Fire

First

" Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details. "

" Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace. "

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

" 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. "

" You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car. "

" The physical sensation of gliding with the wind in your face is exhilarating. That automatic activity of pedalling, when you have to be awake but not think too much, allows you to let subconscious thoughts bubble up, and things seem to just sort themselves out. And the adrenaline wakes you up if you weren't properly alert. "

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

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

" The arts don't exist in isolation. "

" In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words. "

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

David Byrne

Guy

Suit

" 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 love getting out of my comfort zone. "

" 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.' "

" Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively. "

" 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. "