David Byrne Profile

"David Byrne has produced a book. Not just any old book, y'understand. A huge, eleven-by-fourteen-inch picture book, bound in gaudy yellow rubber."

David Byrne Talking Back

"...as a teen and during art school days I was reading Burroughs, Zap comix, Zen...you know the story..."

David Byrne: Not Brought to You By…

"Every part of the culture is owned by something. It no longer emerges organically — or if it does, it's appropriated as it rears its head."

Corporate Mergers (DB/Robert Greenberg discussion)

"I think that even fine artists get into a style that is so recognizable that they essentially produce a logo for themselves. They’ve made their work into one large logo. Basically, they change the size, they change the color, they’ve made their work into a logo that they sell over and over again."