Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!

I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that.

I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it.

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.

The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.

The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it.

It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.

I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it.

These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.

The stars glittered in the sky and as the number of people at the party grew there were merging conversations and laughter and bodies moving in outlines around the kegs of beer in a curtsy of youth.

In most poetic expressions of patriotism, it is impossible to distinguish what is one of the greatest human virtues from the worst human vice, collective egotism.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

I'm always driven by something. It doesn't matter what it is, it could be the smallest task or something huge.

I believe in a magnificent God.

When you decide to be something, you can be it.

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching

I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth.