We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.

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'.

In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.

It takes work to become the person you were created to be. You're worth the work!

Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.

Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?" "I guess it depends on how you die.

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.

You don’t have to have a boyfriend to be happy, to be pretty, or belong.

The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.

But it takes a lot of money to live freely by the sea.

We become what we think about all day long. The qustion is, "What do you think about?"

I had to paint the picture that I was never scared, otherwise I couldn't do my job. But now, as an actor, I'm literally paid to look emotionally accessible.