David Byrne

I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.
David Byrne

That’s the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
David Byrne

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

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.
David Byrne

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
David Byrne

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
David Byrne

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

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

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

I didn’t have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
David Byrne

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
David Byrne

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
David Byrne

Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols.
David Byrne

Architecture theory is very interesting.
David Byrne

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.
David Byrne

I read the NY Times but I don’t trust all of it.
David Byrne

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
David Byrne

Frank Lloyd Wright… his things were beautiful but not very functional.
David Byrne

I couldn’t take pictures of green rolling hills.
David Byrne

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

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

I’m guarded; I don’t talk much.
David Byrne

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