Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on? — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
The idea of making music from an imaginary culture was to give ourselves a set of restrictions and parameters within which to… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Human beings have the incredible capacity for denial. I think they do. And although it's really hard to believe, I have my doubts. But… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don't… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
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… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable.… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“All that interconnectedness that facilitated much of the explosion of megawealth over the last decade also facilitated the interpenetration of everything, so no one… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“I pick up a copy of Newsweek on the plane and immediately notice how biased, slanted, and opinionated all the U.S. newsmagazine articles are.… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
When you fall in love, you feel like a missing piece of a puzzle that's been found. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction? — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Technology has altered the way music sounds, how it’s composed and how we experience it. It has also flooded the world with music. The… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
