The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray. – David Byrne
I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. – David Byrne
Ive rarely kept my distance from kind of – I dont know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing. – David Byrne
Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community. – David Byrne