Always Be Skeptical About Simplicity.

I Wanted To Be A Secret Agent And An Astronaut, Preferably At The Same Time.

That's The One For My Tombstone... Here Lies David Byrne. Why The Big Suit?

Things Fall Apart, It's Scientific.

By The Time Talking Heads Were Starting, My Feeling Was To Throw Out Everything And Start From Scratch Onstage; Strip It Down To As Close To Zero As You Can Get And Then You Can Make It Yours.

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.'