Life Tends To Be An Accumulation Of

Frank Lloyd Wright... His Things Were Beautiful But Not Very Functional.

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

With A Lot Of What We Take To Be True Feelings, Especially On Pop Records, We Feel Them Because They're Cleverly Crafted. And Because The Words Are Written By Somebody Who Knows How To Craft Words And Draw On Those Things And Convey Those Feelings. That Doesn't Mean They're Dishonest. But It Also Doesn't Mean That It's All Just Pure Primitive Emotion Spilling Out.

I Think It's Really Hard To Make Songs That Pursue An Agenda. You Can Kind Of Do It A Little Bit Through A Character, So The Character Gives Voice To Something Or Their Story, The Story Of The Character Tells You Something, But, For Me Anyway, It's Really Hard To Write Directly About Politics.

I Always Think The Everyday Is More Relevant Than Anything Too Grand Because We All Have To Deal With It.