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" 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. "

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" I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know. "

David Byrne

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You

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" Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots. "

" 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. "

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

David Byrne

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" There's more good music being made now than ever before. "

David Byrne

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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. "

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

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

David Byrne

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Idea

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

" Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don't censor yourself, you end up with what you're most concerned about, but you haven't filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it. "

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

" Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored. "

" The arts don't exist in isolation. "

" 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

Early

Sit

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

" I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn't mean you don't have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

David Byrne

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Meet

" I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It's getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes. "