Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it.

I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.

It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.

I'm not going to hold my breath because life goes on. Life is too short to sit around moaning about what could have been or what was.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.

We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.

We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.

Much of history turns out to be the consequence of small acts of fortune, accident or luck, good or bad.

The day of birth is a miraculous day.

Pain is only temporary, but victory lasts for ever.

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

All of my life I have always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms.

Above all, the state of grace is absolutely necessary at the moment of death; without it, salvation and supernatural happiness the beatific vision of God - are impossible.

I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside.

parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.