“All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.”
- David Byrne
“Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?”
“Architecture theory is very interesting.”
“Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.”
“Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.”
“I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.”
“I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.”
“I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.”
“I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.”
“I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.”
“I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.”
“I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.”
“I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.”
“I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?”