David Byrne on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

[@Coilaman]

David is a very humble man. He knows his place in music and he is happy with who he is as an artist. I like him.

[@aek1928]

Me too

[@canadianroot]

Humble? Tell that to the other members of TH.

[@dezertfox3130]

@@canadianroot lots of bands have those issues. He seems to be a down to earth person. Very bright and talented.

[@canadianroot]

@@dezertfox3130 Oh, he's extremely talented, but he seems to be (Asperger's aside) a bit of a control freak. Making Tina audition again was a dick move.

[@bighillhill]

have you ever met him?

[@austincool123]

David Byrne is a genius. The Talking Heads is and always will be one of my favorite bands of all time.

[@bighillhill]

TALKING HEADS were a great band. You are correct.

[@glanni]

-The-

[@GamesWithBrainz]

theyre right next to the beatles for me

[@cemcfarlin]

David Byrne was just in Austin, TX, to promote bicycling and his new book, Bicycle Diaries. He's just a lovely human being and I'm so glad he's still out in the world, spreading his genius.

[@katieohara3222]

I just saw him in his Utopia show in Boston on 9/28/19. It was fabulous. I was puddled up when he sang my favorite song; This Must be the Place. A few days later, they took the show to Broadway. It's playing in NYC right now. He's amazing 😍

[@liamgallagherrr]

for some reason I always had the impression he was some type of self absorbed weird rock art guy, but after watching this my view of him is very different. Awesome to see two true geniuses like eno and byrne working together.

[@Ami483]

yeah, he was a weirdo and anti-social but he changed as he said

[@rik6696]

@@Ami483 He is also high on the autistic spectrum. He as Asperger syndrome which explains a lot of his "strangeness" and explains much of his genius.

[@ChrisR_68]

the mans a legend in my eyes, so multi-talented, his voice never falters and this album is brilliant

[@ceeb3192]

A true creative, so open to trying, experimenting, discovering, not letting formula or fear of failure control him. He's so sweet too, like a boy, very sweet, sincere and modest. ihearthim.💖

[@mauerbluemchen0]

What a sweetheart. I adore him.

[@mrdave777]

David could come across as eccentric, oddly, different. It’s actually class, talent and distinction from all others.

[@cheilith1031]

no its autism

[@bighillhill]

or he's an asshole

[@mrdave777]

@@bighillhill Chris the drummer for TH would want you to believe that. But Chris, he’ll do anything to sell a book and be relevant

[@gioknows]

This guy is super cool.

[@rdingo1]

David Byrne is the best kind of mad genius artist. He's the kind of guy one would love to have over for dinner and conversation and one hell of a musical jam session. Thank you for sending us an angel.

[@08hermit08]

David Byrne is a creative genius...he's the one human being I couldn't keep composure around.

[@screamengine]

Fantastic entertainer and a genuine all-around nutty artist. One of the pioneers of amalgamated music and video artistry. Thanks for being David Byrne, whoever you are!

[@TheFazeonesLounge]

David Byrne is one of the greatest.. ever.. David Byrne..I thank you, for inspiring me.. From when i was a child to present day.. Thank you for all the years of great art & music.. a 11 out of 10.. THE FAZEONES LOUNGE...

[@uaintheardnothinyet]

really like this interviewer. he doesn't waste this brilliant opportunity to interview a legend of our time

[@jademm]

In comparison with most entertainment interviewers (*cough*eTalk*cough*), it's really refreshing to watch an interviewer that doesn't instinctively gush at celebrities nor rely on sensationalism as fodder for their queries. Knowledgeable hosts who ask intelligent, probing questions and who create a laid back environment where guests are at ease are very, very few in number (sadly). Thanks George! Your interviews are actually informative and interesting to watch. Keep up the good work!!

[@fahimrafi9853]

a true artistic mind

[@trippyseedsindeedz]

i love his laugh! its epic! such a good sense of humor!

[@BoBeena]

David is Brilliant! The Byrne/Eno collaboration is genius. I love how the two amazing artists created something so seamless and in sync. Yeay!

[@justinamarina3774]

I love his singing voice.

[@BRIERFOX]

David Byrne is an awakened musician.

[@sirop1960]

I am reading his "Bicycle Diaries" it's great, like almost everything he's touched. What a great artist. Yes the world need more people like David Byrne. Thanks for posting!

[@johnwhite79]

If I had dinner with David Byrne and David Lynch, my head would explode.

[@anne91276]

Wow, a man with a lot of experiences.... and contributions. Impressive!

[@Croutonza]

its like 60 minutes on acid

[@LuannOsbourne]

a Scottish man with an American accent

[@alessioarzola2302]

[e-mail] Yeah what happened to his Accent?? He is American though naturalized.

[@StevenClements]

Alessio Arzola if you can rely on wiki... David Byrne was born in Dumbarton, Scotland, to parents Tom (from Lambhill, Glasgow) and Emma. He was the elder of two children. Two years later, his parents moved to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and then to Arbutus, Maryland, in the United States, when he was 8 or 9 years old. You're not likely to keep an accent with that history... at least not from your preteens

[@adamtzsch]

Alessio Arzola He was a Baltimore child. Ignorance isn't an attractive quality, and neither is your immature comment.

[@mulliniks51]

Fantastic human being

[@88madmax88]

thank you David for being there for us all. good luck with the bike riding promos and other projects. peace

[@OhGodThe]

He aged so gracefully... Just look at him in comparison to Eno.

[@nymets9559]

Kaleb Smith That's not very nice, Eno's my uncle 🖕

[@HMan2828]

David Byrne has asperger's and mild autism, but it seems much better controlled these days. Apparently back in the days he was extremely hard to work with because of it, and had all kinds of jitters and ticks.

[@justinamarina3774]

We have a young man named Alex in our neighborhood that has autism that looks like him. Nice guy, too.

[@nymets9559]

Justina Marina How dare you. Not all people or animals with autism look the same for fuck sake. My dog is different to odders do.

[@myotherusername9224]

"asperger's and mild autism" I thought it was something wrong with me, I felt like I couldn't connect with him.

[@xanderdoesnt]

@@nymets9559 Know this was a year ago aye but who the fuck said that

[@butchhill6339]

A creative genius from Talking Heads to 2022 Amazing talent

[@YOYO-oj8sx]

Scotland’s very own

[@tonytannahill536]

Yo Yo got a story for you ,i guess your a Scot,as i am,i met David Bryne in Barcelona 95 and as a big fan of him i was talking with him about him being a Scot,told him i thought he should value his Scottish roots,so in 97 i was living in San Francisco and he was playing a concert solo,so i went along and he only wore a kilt that night,i was at the front of the stage giving him big thumps up and i was noted,A BIG PROUD MOMENT FOR THIS GLASGOW BOY😁 I also moved out as a boy early 70,s when they were moving us inner city kids into Easter houses etc etc.

[@foxon88]

I just want to see David perform "Whole Lotta Love" in a tiny karaoke bar, just once.

[@SIMONP1965]

Grate intervuie!

[@Catinka666]

David Byrne is so very awesome.

[@allnutts]

I just got my Tickets to see him for the 3rd time in Edmonton,Alberta Canada. He is truely a Renaissance Man!

[@Gcort49]

He fails to mention he is a vegan...no wonder he is in such good physical shape to stage perform as he does...bike riding + healthy diet= stamina

[@mrdave777]

Vegan is good. Eating meat, and being vegan is perfection!

[@SIMSIMGALify]

Roy, how true, No matter who is on the Show George gets them to open up and share. Saw David Byrne in Ottawa at Jazz Fest great artist...

[@themooddisorders]

he is so awkward and i love it

[@F22RaptorSquadron]

He just bursts out laughing when the host brings up Led Zeppelin haha.

[@zeenat89]

Thanks George for another awesome interview; you have come a long way since the muchmusic days :)

[@albeleo1177]

It's awesome to see an interview with David Byrne just being himself. Many times he'll fall into a sort of surreal character state, probably because he isn't enjoying the interview. As was previously stated, he seems comfortable here.

[@QAndJMovies2]

My favotrie Band his music is his own you know when you listen to David Byrne music because it's one of a kind

[@Tamar-sz8ox]

I love his hair so handsome 🥰

[@Raptuza]

Yes! He is very sexy

[@karmadhyana]

Great interview with an amazing artist. I loved THs, but I kinda take exception with the statement that it was the best thing he's ever done. His solo work is so great: Rei Momo, Uh-Oh, Look Into the Eyeball---all of them are fabulous. And, one of my all-time fave songs is his cover of Cole Porter's "Don't Fence Me In" (made famous by Roy Rogers) on 'Red, Hot & Blue'. Truly an icon. Thanks for posting this!

[@codobus]

I swear David Byrne makes me think of myself in many ways. I have no idea whether that's a good thing or a terrible thing. I'll go with awesome.

[@CeeGeeZ]

Neat person! Brilliant! Thanks for posting the share-sharing the post;-)

[@ImYourHuckleberry_29]

I like his optimism. One can learn from him.

[@journeythruthepast]

Byrne doesn't like to stare or make prolonged eye contact with people you can see in this clip but that's because he reportedly has Asperberger's. He looks away or to the floor a lot to break the monotony. I know how it works since I also have it and I'm the same when talking to strangers.

[@zzRider]

It's pretty cool of the CBC to air stuff like this. Living in Alabama, USA I would have never seen this interview.

[@JasonBonitati]

"Eeeeeeiiiiiiiihhhhh...I probably would have'' Hahahaha.

[@robynboynton]

what I would give to be there seeing David Byrne singing a karaoke version of whole lotta love.

[@austinside]

MOST other interviewers need to take notes from George S and his style. He's such a GOOD interviewer and engages every artist i've seen into a great conversation which results in awesome interviews to watch and listen to:)

[@greatsilentwatcher]

so glad to be able to watch this... I'm a huge Byrne, Eno... (and Fripp) fan... thx... :)

[@tuftyk67]

A real Artist with a capital "A", eccentric, original. Stop Making Sense is without doubt the greatest music video ever filmed that doesn't have Michael Jackson in it.

[@duderancher13]

I like the sound David makes at the 7:13 mark.

[@ceciliagrantham4689]

Ultimate Scottish noise!

[@mikepeterson5199]

DAVID IS AN ARTIST!

[@Superwassaman1712]

If he died his hair, he'd look 20

[@marsixm]

it's so cute hearing him talk about how hes got to just fall into a new thing and hell go "yes! lets try that" while knowing 10 years down the line that's exactly how his movie about colorguard happened (':

[@surfercrow]

Interesting what he said about having a folding bicycle when traveling so that he doesn't feel trapped in hotels, on tour etc. He looks like he's about to stand up and leave at any moment, for the first 8 minutes of the interview. Glad to see he's still creating music project. I will be checking out his collaboration with Brain Eno they mentioned.

[@jjaniero]

wow, talk about aging gracefully

[@uncleavi2002]

I like the new David Byrne stuff!

[@eddrupz1805]

Five minutes in before I realized the interviewer was not George Stephanopoulos.

[@albeleo1177]

@trench I agree. George is a fantastic interviewer who is passionate about who he interviews. He's also extremely underrated.

[@drfoxcourt]

I hope Byrne is asked to do a TED talk. He's definitely looped into Technology Engineering and Design in very creative ways. Whatever he chose to talk about, he'd be great at it I'm sure. "Designing by poetry" "world-music in the electronic age" "the bicycle centric city"

[@88madmax88]

Byrne-in down the house!

[@fosterslover]

He's Scottish by birth. Moved to the US when he was 9.

[@casperguylkn]

Always wonder what he thought of Tom Verlaine.

[@trisjohnthomas]

3 consorts david byrne pointed him out and thanked him for following him from city to city. So from what ive seen that man is not an a-hole

[@autisticblog]

David Byrne should definitely play Sheldon's father on Big Bang Theory.

[@blakedoesvideos2]

Awesome!

[@thembrown]

If the bike thing sounds interesting to you, David Byrne has produced a really Great book called 'cycle diaries.' Some really interesting ideas to get you out on your bike or to make you look differently at the place you live

[@trench]

really good interviewer. not too many cliche questions; like the guy has really thought about the subject of his interview!

[@lakeyheesacker5546]

Handsome as ever.

[@etcee]

check out the talking heads album "Naked." it was the end of their career, and David had basically usurped creative control of the band. Naked is a really amazing combination of what Talking Heads were and what David Byrne's solo stuff would become.

[@missfying]

@neworleansusan Eyecontact can be learned behaviour. I can do it, it just feels uncomfortable. Not being diagnosed doesn't have to mean anything either. I wasn't diagnosed until age 42. Oh it's called 'Asperger Syndrome' after Austrian psychiatrist Hans Asperger. The g is pronounced like g in gold.

[@MTMF.london]

You can't pin either of those labels on him .... he's just a genius.

[@crazygeorge53]

This is the real, most interesting man in the world.

[@oftheheron]

That was actually a good interview.

[@Caper1986]

yeah, strombo is good these days. doesnt ask the typical lame question. it doesnt hurt that he scores some awesome interviewees

[@inktorious8549]

I love him. He is old enough to be my dad... but I love him Haha

[@LicoriceLain]

Damn. :D

[@KatiaImeldaMarcos]

He is right cycling gives a special sense of freedom... you'll go as far as your legs will bring you. You only rely on yourself. I moved to Amsterdam NL because of the bicycle culture LOL

[@abaseraserhead]

the bio just made me realize that david byrne is basically the epitome of a real-life howard roark

[@trisjohnthomas]

First of all he is awesome... like i would love if he was my neighbor but then again i enjoy out of the box thinkers and people. Also David Byrne is the farthest thing from an a hole, ive personally gone to two of his live consorts and in one someone who wished to take pictures had their camera taken by security, David stop the consort yelled at the security to give the guy his camera back cause he said they could take pictures. Also one of my friends follows him on consort after about

[@jonascaraveo85]

he's sorta cute

[@tabber87]

He's as awkward as he was on Letterman 20+ years ago. Which is a good thing!

[@katieohara3222]

I think he's shy, but a creative genious.

[@Ami483]

best laugh ever

[@KarmaNinja69]

I would do anything to get a hold of his music collection. Well, wouldn't it be nice: "David Byrne loses his MP3 player with his entire music collection and some fool finds it". Sweeeeeetttt!!!

[@themooddisorders]

themooddisorders love david byrne

[@avalon77]

Freedom is the word =D

[@bluesman130]

@neworleansusan he thought he had aspergers but wasn't diagnosed i.e he doesn't. He said that the music just helped him improve his social skills.

[@SIMSIMGALify]

Oh man are you off on this. He had Barbra Walters come out of her tense shell...

[@Dyremar13]

i love him says -)))

[@cinna71]

stil a great person

[@BexCanHex1234]

Very sexy older man,he seem's alot more confident now with age

[@Caper1986]

hey man, thanks. have just recently discovered byrne and his work. yeah, i know...where the hell was I?! got any other recommendations for work of his, the heads or any other artists?

[@Araclain]

@bekylou Hes probubly old enough to be my very young grandpa... but yeah, he is the coolest person ever... and my favorite musician...

[@rotolo]

i have that fender thinline!

[@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin]

Well, the host has been running a talk show for a long time. :P

[@Lukigol]

da legend