Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up.

Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.

Everything in the street today seems soft focus.

His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.

don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another

The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.

I'm not running away, I'm moving on.

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.

You can't lie to your soul.

…when you lonely is the best time to pray, to speak to the Lord, and most important, to listen to the Lord…

Mirrors have three purposes. To show you who you are. To show you who you were. And to show you who you want to be.

Three eggs two slices of toast a cup of coffee an episode of Mr. Ed. A Violin and a bowl of fruit what else does a man need?

No man should live where he can hear his neighbor's dog bark.

I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale!

That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?

My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles.