People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.

- Joey Santiago

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

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

- Joey Santiago

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 d…

- Joey Santiago

I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it.

- Joey Santiago

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

- Joey Santiago

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,…

- Joey Santiago

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 a…

- Joey Santiago

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

- Joey Santiago