Generosity is the key to all relationships. To friendships and bands. That's the golden rule.

I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it.

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.

It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.

I'm not going to hold my breath because life goes on. Life is too short to sit around moaning about what could have been or what was.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.

We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.

The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make people left behind want to stop living, she thinks, without remembering where she heard that.

Lovely as the morning

Patience has never been my strong suit.

Researchers have proven that scientifically, that all humans are one people

I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera.

There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.

Your past forms you, whether you like it or not. Each encounter and experience has its own effect, and you're shaped the way the wind shapes a mesquite tree on a plain.

What matters the party to me? I shall find enough anyhow who unite with me without swearing allegiance to my flag.

There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or health.