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

I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

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.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

A lot of people, musically anyway, have realized that they can do it, and there's an audience for it at least in their own country, and often thought a lot of countries have a diaspora that breaks out all over the place, so they have a pretty wide audience.

The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.

That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?