David Byrne

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don't think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me. ”

I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn't mean you don't have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be. ”

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter. ”

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce. ”

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas. ”

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. ”

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. ”

I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming for, which is not such a good thing. ”

Physical contact is a human necessity. ”

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don't sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck. ”