David Byrne

“This is not my beautiful house! This is not my beautiful wife!”

“Things fall apart, it's scientific.”

“The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way that nothing else does.”

“You may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife. You may ask yourself, 'Well, how did I get here?'”

“The better a singer's voice, the harder it is to believe what they're saying.”

“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 more you know, the more you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.”

“Power is the ability to not have to please.”

“I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.”

“A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.”

“The world isn't logical, it's a song.”

“People will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit.”

“I see the audience as a beam of light. You can't see the individuals. You can just see this brilliant light.”

“Same as it ever was.”