David Byrne quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.'

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?

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

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

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

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.