James Iha Quotations

My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.

The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot.

So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.

I'm happy doing different things. Being in a band is great, but being in a band can be difficult sometimes.

Yeah, I'm sure there are stereotypes of Asian people.

We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that.

Well, I always hope that I'm a role model.

I'd like to keep doing film and TV, and I definitely can appreciate a good theme song. If it's memorable, that's a great thing.

Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time.

All the bands I've played with have had dynamic front men.