David Byrne

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

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

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don't censor yourself, you end up with what you're most concerned about, but you haven't filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.