When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape. I always record everything, even a run through where you're trying to get in tune. That's a principle because sometimes when the situation isn't clear interesting things happen, and they are worth listening to again.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.

I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.