David Sylvian Quotes

Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn’t necessary.

The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.

Sometimes a little compromise isn’t a bad thing. You don’t need to be precious about it.

It wasn’t my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.

I’m obsessed with books.

I think nowadays it doesn’t really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it’s what we’re listening to, what we’re watching, what we’re reading – it can have very little to do with one’s immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect.