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 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.

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.

But Sara has spent enough time in the darkness to know that you often have to remain there for a long time before you’re ready for the light again.

Instead of an unhinged lunatic you may glimpse a punctured soul-a mere human being like you.

Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.

The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?

hindsight is not a strategy.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!

Making [Pineapple Express] was a blast. I'd kind of gotten to the point professionally where I was pretty emotionally exhausted from making dramatic films.