Byrne: "I've got nothing to say most of the time."

Byrne: "Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don't completely know or understand, that I'm not adept at, so I'm forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There's a good feeling that comes from that."

Byrne: "Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored."

Byrne: "I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don't censor yourself, you end up with what you're most concerned about, but you haven't filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it."

Byrne: "Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots."

Byrne: "Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence."

Byrne: "To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that."

Byrne: "The physical sensation of gliding with the wind in your face is exhilarating. That automatic activity of pedalling, when you have to be awake but not think too much, allows you to let subconscious thoughts bubble up, and things seem to just sort themselves out. And the adrenaline wakes you up if you weren't properly alert."

Byrne: "Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively."

Byrne: "People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask."

Byrne: "I'm guarded; I don't talk much."

Byrne: "I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know."

Byrne: "Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days."

Byrne: "Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet."

Byrne: "The arts don't exist in isolation."