It's very hard to separate what is a conscious decision and what's not.

Life is passing you by as you speak, you're on a path and you're all on the same path toward death.

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.

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.

Believe in the power of songs.

You don't want to be conscious of everything.

[When] you're a writer, you know that a lot of times you have to sneak up on yourself in order to achieve what you want to achieve, and sometimes you don't even know what it is until you've done it.