I don't really listen to rock music anymore. But were I to write a song that sounded like it could be a rock song, I'd probably give it to the Pornographers, and I'd be excited to try to make it work.

The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

There are too many Destroyer records to just start rattling them left them off, but they're there.

Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

I'm not that conscious of my writing, so pacing the lyrics doesn't really enter the picture.

Even though people like to say Destroyer [albom] is gibberish and all that, I usually know exactly what I'm saying at every single moment.

I like playing music. I don't always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don't think I'm a natural performer, but I'm getting better.