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

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.

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.

Despite countless prayers for Joseph to be safe, God said no. His plan remains a mystery. I have had to accept that mystery and trust Him in the dark.

The definition of the future is today

Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of vou!

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

There is bound to be a regression toward the mean.

Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.

Realism and art cannot live together.

I've never minded being disciplined. I'd always rather have a quiet evening in than go to a wild party. Discipline for me has always been the foundation which leaves me free to fly.

The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.

Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back.