David Byrne Quotes

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.

It feels like my books come true. I write these things, and then they kind of end up happening. I wasn't divorced, for example, when I wrote a book about divorce.

Over and over, since I was very young, I see things that are about to happen. You can call it heightened intuition; you can call it visions... I see it as a gift. It's my role to give people a heightened awareness, to show that basically we can change the world.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

I actually have a weird tendency to say things to people that they were just about to say. I always freak my best friend out with that. So I might have a bit of psychic power.

I've certainly written a lot of things that have more or less come true. But I don't have a gift for prophecy.

I believe that we can 'sense' the future. We just haven't yet established the mechanism allowing it to happen.

Often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the event. And in today already walks tomorrow.

I have a weird propensity to know what's going to happen in the future.

She sees things — things that might happen, things that are coming. But it’s very subjective. The future isn’t set in stone. Things change.

Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of course it is possible there was noone on the other line. Once she said "God Bless you" I said, "I didn't sneeze" She looked deep into my eyes and said, "You will, eventually." And damn it if she wasn't right. Two days later I sneezed.

I feel déjà vu a lot. Someone said that means that you're living your life the right way because maybe you have foresight, because then, when something actually happens, it feels like déjà vu. I like to think of fate that way.

My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me.

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

I don't necessarily call myself a psychic, but since I was a little girl, I would dream about things, and then I would tell my dad, and it would happen the next day.

I went to a fashion show, and this silver-haired guy was staring at me with these piercing water-blue eyes. It scared me because I absolutely saw and knew my entire future.

Dreams sometimes foretell the future.

Often, I dream about work. For instance, the night before the Oscars, I dreamt about the Oscars and I dreamt about who I wanted to interview. Interestingly, one of the people I really wanted to interview was Keanu Reeves, and then we got him. We had never interviewed him before, so that was lucky. Or maybe it was fate - I don't know.

I used to believe in signs, omens, patterns, secret purpose, synchronicities.

There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

For a long time, I have been making many predictions, far in advance, of events since come to pass, naming the particular locality. I acknowledge all to have been accomplished through divine power and inspiration.