Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

If people could walk around in suits of energy, that would be cool. Other than that, I don't think men should wear spandex.

Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice

When you get second place, you say 'I could have won it here, I could have won it there.' When you win, you never say anything; it's finished.

I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position.

The dog without his master was like a body without a soul.

I've got money so I'm a Conservative.

What goes unsaid eventually goes unthought