David Byrne Quotes

London is full of creative people - you can never say that it's not.

Everyone in New York is fluid and thinking and inspiring each other.

I find N.Y. very inspiring; there is an amazing energy and flow of creativity in N.Y. like nowhere else.

There are so many musicians in New York, and there is this energy and fire in this city that inspires you and makes you want to learn and to get out there. People are constantly evolving and constantly creating here, and you get pushed along just by being in that energy.

New York always has a lot of creativity going on.

New York is an incredible place to be an artist, because there are so many incredible people, and... it's all about the people that you get exposed to.

I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated.

New York seems to be absolutely filled with brilliant people.

I always found very strong images for my songwriting in New York.

You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual. I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge.

Los Angeles is a melting pot for all different cultures and creativity. It's really a ground to cultivate artists.

I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge. There's always a new street I can go to, or a billion new people who I haven't met that I could write about. New York is very humbling.

I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.

Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.

I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

You've got to put interesting people around you; you've got to work with people who are gonna inspire you to take the songs you've written into a completely different direction, because there's nothing more boring than going to the studio and predictably knowing what is going to happen.

Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.

I run around, I listen to a lot of music, go to a lot of concerts. And when I see someone that gases me, I try to go out of my way to involve them somehow in what I'm doing or get involved in what they're doing.

Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.

It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.

I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

What I love about London is the energy and the creativity. Culturally, it is such a happening city, from the cuisine to the fashion.

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

For me, L.A. was, and is, a very creative place to be.