David Byrne Quotes

I'm shedding off the old me and I'm reborn as the new me - it's great!

I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it.

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

It's very exciting to feel like a different woman with a new identity.

I'm like Madonna: I keep reinventing myself.

All of us change. Everyone in this world, from birth to death, becomes someone new. Again and again, we are remade.

I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

You have to have the ability to remake yourself. Whatever that is. Every several years... Every five to 10 years.

Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.

Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of liberation, a chance to reinvent yourself.' That's kind of what I did.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

I've been starting in new places year after year after year. It's just like when I went to Greece or the Philippines. I love when people think I'm a new artist. It's a chance to start over.

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

You got to make the most of your second life. I was born Nayvadius, but now I'm Future. Should I dwell on what Nayvadius was supposed to be? I get a chance to experience life as something else. I wasn't supposed to be like this.

You can be shattered, and then you can put yourself back together piece by piece. But what can happen over time is this: You wake up one day and realize that you have put yourself back together completely differently. That you are whole, finally, and strong - but you are now a different shape, a different size.

I continually reinvent myself. It keeps things interesting.

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

When you #‎ travel , you experience, in a very practical way, the act of #‎ rebirth .

Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.