Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

I have a terrible memory because I'm not interested in the past. It's done, it's done.

A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.

So for those of you who haven't read any of my five best-selling books: Liberals are driven by Satan and lie constantly.

Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.

If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

The most subversive people are those who ask questions.

Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.

I do think that there's a special connection between Australia and America. It's kind of unexplainable. It's just one of those things. It's all about God's timing. We're thankful to be a part of it.

Governments, whether they're dictatorships or democracies, reflect the people. When the people get fed up, they throw them out.

Two weeks of killer sunburn is worth a lifetime of being gorgeous

How do you restart something that had never been turned off?