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.

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.

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.

Old Scully, who according to Jennifer, hadn't the imagination to think the worst. Something she said once, as though neurosis was an artform.

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.

We shall enjoy itAs for him who findsfault, may sillinessand sorrow take him!

Humor is an antidote to isolation.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest - in all its ardour and paradoxes - than our travels.

Time is chasing after all of us.

We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.

Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'.

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.