I've been a crazy, huge Pixies fan my entire life, since I was thirteen. As a creative partnership, and as friends, we had to regroup and make a career-defining record.
I've been a crazy, huge Pixies fan my entire life, since I was thirteen. As a creative partnership, and as friends, we had to regroup and make a career-defining record.
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 think everyone was surprised. I don't know that anybody expected the Pixies to be bigger today than they had ever been.
It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it.
I just found the word 'Pixies' in a dictionary and it sounded like rock 'n' roll.
I couldn't have asked for a better setup, even if it is my former shadow looming once again over me. I was able to start working with a top-notch publicist. My name is fresh on every editor's brain just because of this Pixies thing.
I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.
Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.
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