About David Byrne: David Byrne is a Scottish-born American musician who was a founding member, principal songwriter, and lead singer and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads, active between 1975 and 1991.
I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.
The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.
When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.
I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.
I'm guarded; I don't talk much.
I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.
I've never had writer's block.
I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.
I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.
I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.
In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!
It was a uniform that signified that one was a kind of downtown aesthete; not necessarily nihilistic, but a monk in the bohemian order.
I don't care how impossible it seems.
I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.
I've got nothing to say most of the time.
Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.
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 th...
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.
The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.
I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.
