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.

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.

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.

Live free or die.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk.

I'll always push the envelope. To me, the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe.

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

I'm a computer freak. I'm on the Internet every night. Sometimes I play dungeons and dragons with 15-year-old boys who think I'm a 15-year-old boy with a weird vocabulary.

Any food product that feels compelled to tell you it’s natural in all likelihood is not.

This is how you control your domestic population - by making people afraid and by identifying an enemy.

I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now blogs.

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.