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" Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don't sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck. "

David Byrne

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" I've got nothing to say most of the time. "

" Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past? "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition. "

" The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over? "

" Physical contact is a human necessity. "

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

" People use irony as a defense mechanism. "

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

" So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The arts don't exist in isolation. "