David Byrne

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you're working on. ”

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time. ”

I've got nothing to say most of the time. ”

We live in ugly times. ”

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food. ”

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. ”

Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together in the studio, it makes financial sense to do more than one song at a time. And it makes more sense, if you're going to all the effort of performing and doing whatever else, if there's a kind of bundle. ”

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it. ”

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop. ”

Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context. ”