You can't go on stage and live - it's false all the way. I can't stand the premise of going out in jeans and a guitar and looking as real as you can in front of 18,000 people. I mean, it's not normal!

I heard the news today, oh boy.

I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be so as to give them something to write about.

What I like doing is writing and recording and much more on the, I guess, the - on that creative level. It's fun interpreting songs and all that, but I wouldn't like it as a living.

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.

I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.

In my madness I see your face in mine.