I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?

Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?

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