A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.
David ByrneIt's more about the stuff you think about when you're getting from place to place on a bicycle than it is about actually riding the bicycle.
David ByrneThere's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything. It has to be mediated with some skill and craft, in order to communicate it to a second, a third, or a fourth person. That doesn't make it any less real. And it doesn't make it any less true. But it does mean that, yeah, it's the combination that makes it work.
David Byrne