It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.
David ByrneI've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.
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 ByrneTo some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
David Byrne