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    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.

    Move | Sounds | Gravitate


    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.

    Music | Listen | Bored


    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, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

    Time | Stupid | Mystery


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

    Song | Dead | Constantly


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

    Hear | Sounds


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

    Best | Marriage | Production


    It does just boil down to music.

    Music | Boil


    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.

    Edge | Delay | Screw


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

    Simple | Affinity | Lush


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

    Change | Guitar | Ask


    I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

    Accent | Australian | Hardly


    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 and he's hypnotized!

    Red | Easy | Wait


    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.

    Night | Loved | Bed


    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.

    Mountain | Climbing | Goats


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

    Nice | Mark | Sentences


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

    Great | Reading | Challenge


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

    Influence | Early | Seattle


       

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