Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.
Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet.
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 Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.
I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.
I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.
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.
Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.
I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary.
I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.
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.
There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.
I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.
It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.
When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.
I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.
To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.
Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don't sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.
I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.
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.
People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.
Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around.
Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.
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.
In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.
We live in ugly times.
Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together in the studio, it makes financial sense to do more than one song at a time. And it makes more sense, if you're going to all the effort of performing and doing whatever else, if there's a kind of bundle.
I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car.
Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.