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

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.

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

We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.

The more you try to crush your nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

When you walk through the darkness, God shall be your light!.

People are beautiful when they share things.

The secret parts of this city never ceased to amaze me.

I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.

Death is not the worst sorrow.

I learned that real happiness doesn’t come from getting but from giving.

Twitter, Facebook, Google + are the trifecta of marketing for authors (and bloggers).

Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.

I get offered movies probably twice a month and they are just generally bad.