Quotes: "I don't want to sound like a male chauvinist, but I have a male perspective, because I am male. 'Tame' is about women more than men. But the way some men treat their hair it's incredible and I can't understand all that deodorant and stuff. I've never related to it. My family's rather spartan.
It's about putting all that time into sexual presentation. I don’t mean it in a dirty kind of way. Where I live in the city, women spend time presenting themselves and still come out forever bland and mediocre." - NME 22nd April 1989
"You know that there was friction between them [Black Francis and Kim Deal], and it all just exploded. Yes, there was a sexual tension. Some nights when he used to sing "Tame," I used to think that anyone under the age of 18 shouldn't be allowed to watch him perform that song." - Chas Banks, "Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies" (US Edition, Pg. 225)
