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

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.

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.

Generosity is the flower of our love for the humanity.

Positives can always be found in anything that is faced as long as the correct attitude can be maintained.

For many years quantum physics had been giving indications that there are levels of reality other than the material level.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

For me, soldiers are all equal. Those black people wore your same uniform, fought on your side, and so you will be in the same jail.

The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.

This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.

The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

My reality was that if there was a defenseless player, if that person didn't touch the ball, I would not hit them. I was not going to strike you if you didn't have an opportunity to get the ball.