1.
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!
Joey Santiago
2.
I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that.
Joey Santiago
3.
I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it.
Joey Santiago
4.
Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.
Joey Santiago
5.
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.
Joey Santiago
6.
Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.
Joey Santiago
7.
People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.
Joey Santiago
8.
The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.
Joey Santiago
9.
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.
Joey Santiago
10.
It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.
Joey Santiago
11.
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.
Joey Santiago
12.
I can hardly understand the Australian accent.
Joey Santiago