David Byrne’s Graduation Speech Offers Troubling and Encouraging Advice for Students in the Arts

From Open Culture:

How could David Byrne never have given a commencement address before? As an experienced public speaker, a well-known creator who has carved out his own cultural niche, an advocate of things (such as cycling) beloved among world-changing young people, the founder of a band with a surprising multi-generational appeal, and a man with no small command of Powerpoint, he’d seem to make an appealing choice indeed. His first commencement address ever came this year at the Columbia University School of the Arts.

Byrne's talk begins at 1:18:00 and concludes at 1:34:00.