The late 90s were crazy science-fictional if you were inside the superheated steam bubble of the dot-com 1. 0 industry.
I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?
I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary
Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you can never again think of the people of that culture as less than yourself. I would like to believe that if I am deeply moved by a song originating from some place other than my own homeland, then I have in some way shared an experience with the people of that culture. I have been pleasantly contaminated. I can identify in some small way with it and its people.
Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.
I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.
Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn't guarantee you intelligence of another sort. You can behave just as stupidly with a good college education.
I still didn't look at him. I was afraid if I did that, I would turn around, run back to him, and hurl myself into his arms.
Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is.
God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a horse into a winged creature.