Stick to your instincts.

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'.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times it's the only time we've got.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Travel teaches as much as books.

If a leader's actions don't back up his or her words, those who are trying to follow will first grow confused.

In America, music is more tightly categorized

Be Hard on the issue, Soft on the person.

I'm confident with my ability.

If we resist the temptation to allow other people to define who we are, then we will gradually be able to let the sun inside our own soul shine forth.

I've been on this earth for sixty-six years, and I've reached a conclusion and it's a fact: women are strange creatures.

I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.