Etienne Vernaeve Was she the woman Ian Curtis left his wife for?

Annik's sensitivity to her subject is excellent. She allows David Byrne the space to speak freely and with a childlike candor and innocence that is facinating. His insights and perspectives unhindered and facinating.

@@chasvonplatten1298 Yes Yes that child-like innocence radiates from him like a strobe light that kind of puts one in a trance. It's stunning!

Etienne Vernaeve Thanks for this interesting fact! 🤙🏻

She was probably looking to kill another idol...sorry not a fan

I feel the exact same way! It makes me think that if people can like David and think he's cute, then they can think the same way about me! In fact, David is the only reason why I started being myself and not a fake annoying extroverted class clown.

@@talkinglegs9606 same here. I see myself in his way of talking or reacting to other people. And that he has transformed his special way of being in an important part of pop culture is so inspiring. I trust in being myself a lot more now

Absolutely, and to be such a fucking amazing artist and creative. The socializing may not come easy to him but his art sure as hell does!

I draw a line between the words Autistic and Authentic.

@@talkinglegs9606 That's scarily relatable to me. Sometimes we just need a role model who isn't afraid to be themselves, (especially if we have the same personality) which can encourage us to be ourselves.

He’s very intelligent

Yup! As sweet as a cupcake!!

In all fairness, this was relatively early on in his career (he started singing with the talking heads when he was just 22 years old). It had been 7 years in his career so far at that point.

Yes I'm weird too and proud of it and love this beautiful weirdness!

I always believe in questioning things, something which has been lost, I think, because since the days of Thatcher and Reagan people have neither been taught or encouraged to question things, because the politicians both at the time of Thatcher and Reagan and afterwards consider intelligent and questioning people as a threat to them. All that means is that these politicians, who we were always encouraged to believe were some of the greatest thinkers of our time, and some of the greatest politicians both then and amongst the ones who went before them, is that they were not very intelligent politicians themselves, which is why they were so eager to place everything in the hands of those who paid them the most to support the greediest and most evil policies in the history of politics in the world.

@@nicolakirton2252 I love this comment! I agree! 💖

Yes he has such beautiful depth and actually thinks which is rare nowadays.

He could host a children's show...

@@Dan0__ The theme would be "Stay Up Late".

@@yourfairykingOr Don’t Worry about the Government

MrDave 777 because on stage you see the real David Byrne. He likes to be seen singing and dancing and expressing himself freely the way he wants and he needs it.He is not uncomfortable with people when doing so because nobody judges him in these moments. An interview is more intimate and requires you to react directly to someone and it s intimidating for someone with poor social skills. Still this guy is a real gentleman

Boss Tanaka I wanted to say you composed a terrific response! Thank you! You worded that perfectly! Their live concert SMS is a masterpiece! I haven’t listened or watched in over a week yet find myself singing bits of songs from that concert throughout the day! When music does that, the artists are on to something! I have a difficult time listening to TH studio albums! I had their greatest hits and liked just a few songs! With that said, SMS took a lot of those songs, perfected them. AND all the artists were at their musical peak! “They’ve enlisted all their family, they’ve enlisted all their friends...”. Another bit I can’t get out of my head!

@@mrdave777 SMS is easily my favorite concert film :)

He's Autistic. Genius .

I think it is amazing that so many people who have similar types of mental illness to the one David Byrne has, turn out to be some of the most artistic people around. I can understand why people such as David Byrne can feel more at home on the stage, a place where you would think they would be their most uncomfortable because they are exposed to hundreds and thousands of people looking at them and possibly judging them. However, that is not what occurs to you when you are on stage, because you can sort of pretend to be someone else while you are on stage, and you can forget your troubles when you on stage,, because you have to concentrate when on stage. So, being on stage can be a form of distraction, something which is very important for people with similar mental illnesses to the Asperger's that David Byrne has, and to people who have depression and anxiety. In my opinion, I think David Byrne and Talking Heads are some of the most iconic people and bands in my lifetime who have been responsible for some of the most iconic songs and lyrics of my lifetime.

Yes, all that and then his gentle way of talking, very pleasant and beautiful to listen to.

He says that performing over the years made him more comfortable with social interactions. Music/art often does have that affect with people on the spectrum, myself included.

Time! I used to speak exactly like him on this video a few years ago and then received my diagnosis and some tips on how to socialise and also followed sign language classes (for nonverbal communication). I also went to art school and leading critiques really helped. I still behave like this in unfamiliar situations but as you grow used to things around you you'll grow more comfortable and more knowledgeable of the codes of the world. To each their own pace! :)

Yeah I do too. Speaking voices and mannerisms are also similar to each other.

that would be amazing

Christian Bale either!

Because he’s hot. He would have made a sexy vampire! 😍

Had a great day.

Well to be fair, he was/is very well known to be socially awkward, anxious, and painfully shy (especially in older interviews) so he’s probably speaking like that as a coping mechanism.

i believe stop making sense was a year after this

Stop Making Sense was recorded in mid December 1983, and Talking Heads were busy touring the US from August until early 1984 with no shows in other countries, so this (recorded in Belgium) would have been from either before August or a period during the tour where they didn't have many shows, possibly November. I'm guessing it's from around June though

He was actually born in Scotland too.

Speaking voice also sounds slightly similar.

Apparently that happened a lot and was one of the reasons the band broke up unamicably. I can imagine that Tina, as strangely as she’s reflected on it in some of her statements, carried resentment for feeling like she had to mother him to make gigs work. And you can understand why-women especially-would be drawn to feel that way, although not a good behavior.

@@electricfishfan7159 yeah it’s a terrible reality. I’m diagnosed autistic too, but I’m very lucky to have a somewhat ‘normal’ outward expression. I can’t imagine how horrible it feels to be someone on the spectrum who has an expression similar to David Byrne and just getting babied all the time.

Once in a lifetime

I think he definitely leaned into it for comedic effect as you can see in his self-interview and his stage presence. I do the same thing, and so do a lot of comedians and people in anxious moments. Brian Eno attested once that David was mostly like this all the time, even while being mugged, for what that’s worth.

I think most people don't understand that people who are on the spectrum may act like what you see in the interview but when you get them to do something they are very passionate or obsessed about whether music, a certain hobby, sport etc..they can perform all of these confidently with no hint of nervousness because they are so into their world that they could care less about the audience or spectators. I probably didn't explain it well here, lol

They're both on the spectrum a hair-Sheldon is a STEM genius and David is a musical genius

Surely the actor playing the Good Doctor has based his mannerisms on David (albeit exaggerated and exentuated).

Is David schizophrenic?

@@pho_is_not_interesting he is autistic

Yes

I think you mean handsome ;)

I like heroin.

Nope.

He only tried heroin once but didn’t like it, in his own words

So either all of you who keeps talking about what drugs he's on are either too stoned yourself to observe the absence of behaviors associated with these drugs or you know nothing about these drugs.