In Canada there's an extensive grant system that really allows people to make their work without having to suffer that much, and I'm staring to come around on that, that maybe people don't have to suffer. Maybe you can just not be unhappy and make beautiful music in Canada, maybe that's ok.

In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians.

Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to actually live take a lot of courage.

It's a strange life... you really don't know how you will impact people or how things will play out.

This is the thing I've noticed is that the greater the distance between you and any ordinary task is the measurement of how much rockstar potential you have.

The things that I've seen where people are trying to change the definition of what a band has to be, those are the things that end up being inspiring.

I'm a chick for sure.