Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

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'.

We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.

What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.

He didn't even know how to talk about it. He had practiced not talking about the things he knew until no man could be called his equal.

We have a lot of friends, but not among the governments - the friends are in the peoples. And in the last instance the peoples will be the rulers of those states.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

Every day is the opportunity for a better tomorrow.

Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.

Wisdom is knowing when you don't know

Gordie: Do you think I'm weird? Chris: Definitely. Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird? Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird