Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?

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

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.

The idea of making music from an imaginary culture was to give ourselves a set of restrictions and parameters within which to work. Otherwise, we might have just gone on all kinds of creative detours, some of which might have been interesting. But better we confine ourselves to something.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody, a vocal melody - if it works with that, then I feel it's written and there's something there. So I intentionally don't get involved with arranging stuff or fussing over the sounds and the edits and the beats too much, at least not in the beginning, because I feel like then you can fool yourself that you've got something there, when you might not.

I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be.