It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

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'.

I was sure I fell in love with him again like the usual. He did things that made me go back to him. Once again, it scared me half to death.

I feel like people around me are betters voting on the wrong horse in the race. I am that horse, always failing to make others win.

Rain woke him, a slow drizzle, his feet tangled in coils of discarded fiberoptics. The arcade's sea of sound washed over him, receded, returned. Rolling over, he sat up and held his head.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy.

I don't care to dress up except when it is necessary or good for my business.

Prevent the things you have been doing and you are half-way home.

We can enhance our intelligences, but I am never going to become Yo-Yo Ma, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, or Pele.

The Jesuits…are a secret society – a sort of Masonic order – with superadded features of revolting odiousness, and a thousand times more dangerous.

I think I'm passionately allowing myself to be influenced by the things that are around me.