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

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

Architecture theory is very interesting.
David Byrne

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
David Byrne

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

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

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

I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.
David Byrne

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary.
David Byrne

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