I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.
David ByrneI like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
David ByrneI wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?
David ByrneOne knew in advance that life in New York would not be easyโ but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heatโ and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn't move to New York to make a fortune.
David ByrneI've changed my music from time to time so I'm hoping that I can completely change my life from time to time, too. Like live in another land, in another place, and just get completely soaked up in another way of being. Could be in this country or another country, somewhere were you can be reborn a number of times not just creatively, but personally as well. I guess I want to go through life as more than one person.
David Byrne