A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling.
I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary
Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you can never again think of the people of that culture as less than yourself. I would like to believe that if I am deeply moved by a song originating from some place other than my own homeland, then I have in some way shared an experience with the people of that culture. I have been pleasantly contaminated. I can identify in some small way with it and its people.
Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.
I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.
Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn't guarantee you intelligence of another sort. You can behave just as stupidly with a good college education.
The trick is to realize that one is not important, except insofar as one’s example can serve to elucidate a more widespread human trait and make readers feel a little less lonely and freakish.
In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
I knew Ginny was lying about that tattoo.
I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.