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.

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.

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

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.

Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience.

I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.

The Balkanization of the media means that nobody is having a single conversation with a single set of agreed-upon facts and assumptions the way you had as recently as the 90s.

After awhile, marriage gets a little stale and you're looking for something to scratch that a little.

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

I'm not obsessed by how I look or with being reed thin, but I do think that as a woman in my 50s, I have 40 years ahead. Looking after yourself goes hand in hand with looking good.

I hit a lot of bad shots, but you just need to laugh about them, be able to have a smile on your face, and just keep moving.

Are we amateurs and not professionals? We know the lessons of history, we know the mistakes and we either act accordingly or collapse. Salvation lies in clarity and the courage to implement change