David Byrne

We live in ugly times.

— David Byrne

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

— David Byrne

“Stop making sense”

— David Byrne

The arts don't exist in isolation.

— David Byrne

It's like 60 Minutes on acid.

— David Byrne

Always be skeptical about simplicity.

— David Byrne

Things fall apart, it's scientific.

— David Byrne

“You can change the story anytime.”

— David Byrne

Science's job is to map our ignorance.

— David Byrne

Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.

— David Byrne

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

— David Byrne

I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

— David Byrne

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

— David Byrne

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

— David Byrne

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

— David Byrne

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

— David Byrne

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

— David Byrne

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

— David Byrne

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

— David Byrne

When you fall in love, you feel like a missing piece of a puzzle that's been found.

— David Byrne

In a certain way, you get some new tools to work with, but I don't know if it ultimately makes the creative…

— David Byrne

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though.…

— David Byrne

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

— David Byrne

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic…

— David Byrne

I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It's getting safer to do so, but I do have to…

— David Byrne

Facts are simple and facts are straight. Facts are lazy and facts are late. Facts all come with points of view. Facts…

— David Byrne

Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that…

— David Byrne

Often I don't know what the song means until it's finished. Sometimes months later. I don't think that's bad. It implies that…

— David Byrne

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music…

— David Byrne

There's a great temptation to clean everything up and make everything more perfect. You have to know when to stop and stop…

— David Byrne

A lot of people, musically anyway, have realized that they can do it, and there's an audience for it at least in…

— David Byrne

We're on a road to nowhere, come on inside. Takin' that ride to nowhere, we'll take that ride. I'm feelin' okay this…

— David Byrne

What's been missing from digital music sales has been the possibility of added depth. In a printed package one can only include…

— David Byrne

Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together…

— David Byrne

There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or…

— David Byrne

My favorite term for a new kind of performance is "security theater." In this genre, we watch as ritualized inspections and patdowns…

— David Byrne

With a lot of what we take to be true feelings, especially on pop records, we feel them because they're cleverly crafted.…

— David Byrne

“I pick up a copy of Newsweek on the plane and immediately notice how biased, slanted, and opinionated all the U.S. newsmagazine…

— David Byrne

Metal buildings are the dream that Modern Architects had at the beginning of this century. It has finally come true, but they…

— David Byrne

“But at times words can be a dangerous addition to music — they can pin it down. Words imply that the music…

— David Byrne