"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."

"Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you're working on."

"Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head."

"People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them."

"On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town."

"Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create."

"I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that."

"I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It's getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes."

"It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix."

"People use irony as a defense mechanism."

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

"To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware."

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

"I don't like begging money from producers."

"I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works."

"My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food."

"I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn."

"If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it."

"Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots."

"Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then."

"PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows."

"You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends."

"That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you."

"Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter."

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

"Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?"

"I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know."

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

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

"The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day."

"I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people."

"Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored."

"Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for."

"With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why."

"I'm proud of 'Stop Making Sense,' but it's a little bit of an albatross; I can't compete with it, but I can't ignore it either."

"I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will."

"Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don't completely know or understand, that I'm not adept at, so I'm forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There's a good feeling that comes from that."

"I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories."

"I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing."

"Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details."

"Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it's a way to make a living."

"That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?"

"I love getting out of my comfort zone."

"The physical sensation of gliding with the wind in your face is exhilarating. That automatic activity of pedalling, when you have to be awake but not think too much, allows you to let subconscious thoughts bubble up, and things seem to just sort themselves out. And the adrenaline wakes you up if you weren't properly alert."

"All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label."

"The arts don't exist in isolation."

"Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks can hear it risk-free."

"Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols."