By the time Talking Heads were starting, my feeling was to throw out everything and start from scratch onstage; strip it down to as close to zero as you can get and then you can make it yours.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

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

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

I believe that life is written out for you, it maps out your life to make you happy, but what I’ve been living for the past four years is my unwritten life...

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.

You have to have an emotional investment in what you're doing. If you don't love what you're doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.

I find a certain peace by thinking of me in public as sort of an avatar self. You out there can have the avatar me.

Some things happen by accident - embrace them.

Early Chinese thinkers had taken variety at face value. They had favored diversification and collected anomalies instead of trying to explain them away.

Become vision itself.

Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.

I've always had problems with guys!