David Byrne's Collaboration Method/Home Studio

According to this blog post, David Byrne loves to mix it up a little bit while working with others.  If you've ever wondered where his lyrics come from, you may not want overthink it: 

"Once I have a melody and vocal arrangement I, or both collaborators, like I’ll transcribe that gibberish as if it were real words. I’ll listen carefully to the meaningless vowels and consonants and try to understand what that guy emoting so indistinctly (that’s me) is actually saying. It’s like a forensic exercise. I’ll follow the sound of the nonsense syllables as closely as possible — if a melodic phrase of gibberish ends on a high ooh sound, then I’ll transcribe that as a word that ends in that syllable, or as close to it as I can imagine."

Also, check out his home studio mess.  

-MD