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

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.

I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that.

The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.

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

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.

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.