I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

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'.

Love is the light by which all are brought forward out of darkness.

Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

Everyone, regardless of ability or disability, has strengths and weaknesses. Know what yours are. Build on your strengths and find a way around your weaknesses.

If I become president, I couldn't care less about my company.

He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.

People need BHAGs - big hairy audacious goals.

Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.

Not my will, but Yours be done.

Things have gotten so bad in this country, you look back at Richard Nixon with nostalgia.

Authentic success is being so grateful for the many blessings bestowed on you and yours that you can share your portion with others.