In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.

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'.

There will be peace in the world when we will learn to understand that there are no you and me, there is only we in this world.

Let's not hate the existence of hatred.

Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Creativity is an input to innovation and change is the output from innovation.

I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes." "Those are spiders.

Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.

The world obviously needs to change ... if we can't protect our innocent women and children, then we have a serious problem.

Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty

If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?