Joey Santiago Quotations

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

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.

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.

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

It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.

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

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 not an ego thing. It just seems like an interesting thing to do. I'd like to go down to the Philippines and say, 'Hey, it's me, Joey Santiago from The Pixies. Give me a script, I want to be in a movie.