David Byrne

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.

I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

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

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

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah, ' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

Architecture theory is very interesting.