David Byrne Quotes

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.

My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

I used to love writing in my journal.

My songs are just little letters to me.

When you listen to records like 'Foreclosure,' that's like me sitting in a room by myself just rapping about things that's running across my mind and things that have been bothering me.

Writing mirrors the interior self. You know, any book is like the perfect blueprint of the psyche of the author.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.

Living alone, you can do so many fantastic things I've learned. You can like, walk around and have so many conversations with yourself and sing your thoughts. I think I'm the only one that does that.

I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

When you talk to yourself, at least you know that someone is listening.

Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If it's just you, and you're at your favorite piano, or whatever instrument, and you feel comfortable, then somehow, I always feel like it's opening a door and letting whatever is to pass through pass.

I never really think too much about my voice.

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

I'm interested in getting deep into a person's consciousness and doing so in ways in which the narrator is secondary to the character's own thoughts.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

When I'm writing, I need to amplify my thoughts and feelings on just a conversation that I might have had with somebody - somebody close to me. It's often the case that the people closest to me are the people on my mind the most.

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.