With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.

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

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.

I'm just wearing regular street clothes. Pretty much all the time. In the summertime, or when it gets warm out, shorts and sandals or something like that. Stuff that I don't mind getting a little sweaty.

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