I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant?

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'.

A pastor without anointing is just a religious professor

The jealousy and evilness are like worms, that destroy the soul.

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

If we ask enough questions about a difficult assignment, we can get the teacher to make it easier and less demanding.

I have a, shall we say, morbid personality.

I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag.

Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.

It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used to, mainly because it's like you are deconstructing it all the time.