I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.

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.

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

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 can bring peace in the world, not by eliminating violence in the world, but by finding the causes of violence and by preventing those from infecting the society.

People believed what made them comfortable. What fit with their preconceptions of how the world worked.

If I have a theological virtue, it is curiosity or inquisitiveness.

With every blessing comes temptation, tests and persecution

I have no sympathy for debunking human achievements that, in the end, gave ordinary people liberty.

The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

Physical fitness contributes to all other aspects of personal development and makes for rich and radiant living

I've had the big ups and the big downs.

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.