Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe Put your ray gun to my head Press your space face close to mine, love Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah!

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.

I think the first experience scared the hell out of me. Within months of my initial marriage [on Angela Bowie], I realized I had done a really naive and rather stupid thing. . . . I don't think either of us had any real resolve about being together. The result was it made me wary of relationships.

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.

If we could be heroes, if just for one day.

I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.