I really love traveling, I love playing.

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

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.

I always felt like I had to leave Canada, which I think is a common perspective - feeling as if you have to leave because otherwise you'll be too soft, and that objective reality exists in America. And I'm starting to feel like that doesn't have to be the case.

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.

I like the idea of interviews where you just talk about stuff instead of where it's my chance to talk to my public through something else.

I think every musician is different, every artist is different, and in a perfect world people would be able to pursue their own path and have the inspiration and the drive to, and the energy and dedication to take their path to its fruition. I don't really believe in formulas.