I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.

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'.

Blood might be thicker than water, but love was the most powerful magic of all.

Heroes don't exist. And if they did, I wouldn't be one of them.

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

How about this?" I said, because now it was the principle of the thing. "I'm sorry, jackass.

Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life - this is what you are here for

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

Live as if your prayers are to be answered.

There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.