Joey Santiago

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

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

“It's the best marriage of songs and production. But I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova.”

“Where I live, there's a lot of canyons. We're climbing constantly - we're like mountain goats. I'm just trying to get better at that.”

“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.”

“People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.”

“I can hardly understand the Australian accent.”

“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 always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.”

“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 screw up on the delay settings, so pretty much everything is manually done by me - I don't have those presets like the Edge has.”

“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.”

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

“It does just boil down to music.”

“I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that.”

“The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.”

“I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that.”