I'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 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 ByrneLife tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
David ByrneThe voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.
David ByrneWhen it became easy enough to do dairy online, then I just thought, "Oh, I'll start doing this. I'll put the parts online that aren't going to get me in trouble. I'll save the rest for myself." It became also this kind of self-therapy. I could write about stuff that was bothering me, or personal stuff. And the very personal stuff I could edit out. But it was kind of the catharsis of getting it out and writing about it, that made me think, "Okay, I see why people do this, why they keep these diaries." So I thought, "Well, let's see what happens when I post some of it."
David Byrne