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To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

David Byrne

Trust

Artist

Responsibility

I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

David Byrne

Being

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

David Byrne

Time

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.

David Byrne

Clothes

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.

David Byrne

Trust

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

David Byrne

Business

Body

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

David Byrne

Thought

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

David Byrne

Rebellion

I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

David Byrne

Will

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

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People

Talk

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

Architecture theory is very interesting.

David Byrne

Architecture

Theory

I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

David Byrne

Writing

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.