25 Quotes by Joey Santiago

Where I live, there's a lot of canyons. We're climbing constantly - we're like mountain goats. I'm just trying to get better at that.

I was a nervous wreck and I kept calling my wife. It was so out of character for me to even be down there. But in the end it was good closure for me.

I screw up on the delay settings, so pretty much everything is manually done by me - I don't have those presets like the Edge has.

I was basically eking it out. (The reunion) couldn't have come at a better time.

When you meet your friends, especially, you notice how different you are. Everything from your clothing to the places you like to hang out. The other night a friend of mine said, 'So Mr. Rock Star how come you haven't been keeping in touch?' And I thought, 'Sod that! You haven't written to me either'.

You flip a coin and you lie in bed and that's a long good-bye - you know?

It's the best marriage of songs and production. But I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova.

It's not an ego thing. It just seems like an interesting thing to do. I'd like to go down to the Philippines and say, 'Hey, it's me, Joey Santiago from The Pixies. Give me a script, I want to be in a movie.

I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that.