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One of my earliest childhood memories is my father taking me in the evening to Samena Swim & Recreation Club in Bellevue.
The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.
I wish I'd lived in New York in my early twenties. Or learned to speak more languages at a young age. I didn't do either.
My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!
That's one of the fun things...That's your excuse for dressing up. You can get picked on and go, 'Oh well I'm in a band'.
I don't make records to win awards. I make records to make records and hopefully make the records as good as they can be.
I believe that everyone is destined for greatness, but most people aren't willing to pay the price it takes to get there.
Representation, then, is not - nor can it be - neutral; it is an act - indeed the founding act - of power in our culture.
Every time I make a record, it's make-or-break time. I hope I always have that mentality - that's what keeps me fired up.
Getting people to come play my 'Darius and Friends Show' was so easy because it's for St. Jude, and that's a great thing.
When people in Washington say they're going to take away my guns, they better bring theirs if they're going to take mine.
All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.
Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.
There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling.
When you try to create something different, there is always a mix of enthusiasm and skepticism, and I think this is fair.
Logically there is nothing new to say about the New. Or maybe it's just a problem of articulating unfamiliar perceptions.
I really like female singers; I've got zero interest in working with male singers. Any male voice I need to do, I can do.
I haven't been able to write a song about flying. It just sounds cheesy. But for me, there's nothing like being up there.
Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.
When you're on tour too much or on stage too much, you feel like you have to deliver and get this super-hyped vibe going.
There was no call from anybody in the band to discuss any of the things that had been a problem or what I had done wrong.
That last record I did, I think I played every guitar on the entire record. I want to do something more fun and exciting.
Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.
Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.
In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer.
Each individual has to burn out his own karma and escape from the chains of maya (illusion), reincarnation, and all that.
It's by your own actions you're able to get more in a mess or out of one. It's your own actions that relieve or bind you.
Obviously we were having an effect, because all these people were clamouring to meet us. Like Muhammad Ali, for instance.
All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
The best thing about wearing black is that you can hide pretty easily, unless you're in like Hawaii, then you can't hide.
I don't know if commerce can every truly be information. I think that's just commerce, that's just selling you something.
The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian.
It's really tough - if you're on a major label and they want you to have a number one song, you need to do what they say.
I think all artists secretly hope their kids might do something safer and straitlaced: maybe my daughter 'll be a banker.
I think the British government's cutting back of arts funding is such a crime. I bet it will happen in Denmark soon, too.
In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.
I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside.
The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event.
All you have is your fire And the place you need to reach Don't you ever tame your demons But always keep them on a leash
I couldn't think of anything worse than hating your own music and having to play it every night. It would be a nightmare.
I have mood swings, but I'm sure people in England have that, too. Me and my friends, we're just a bunch of happy idiots.
We're not to be surprised at all what we see happening in every part of the world. It's a change of the return of things.
I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'
I really don't like showing people how I play things; it's a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
I think it's time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
I'm involved in all things musical. It's all consuming, even if it doesn't necessarily manifest as a record or a concert.
Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.