When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.

I'm not like them, but I can pretend.

Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.

I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.

All my life, I never believed most things I read in history books and a lot of things I learned in school. But now I've found I don't have the right to make a judgment on someone based on something I've read. I don't have the right to judge anything. That's the lesson I've learned

I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man.