David Byrne Writing Quotations

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.

I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.

I love writing. I don't claim to be great at it. Occasionally I get a good sentence off. But I love the activity.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through a character, so the character gives voice to something or their story, the story of the character tells you something, but, for me anyway, it's really hard to write directly about politics.