I'm a chick for sure.

The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things.

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

It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.

I love to read about music and about art, but I don't try and take things about mythology or guidelines as to how I'm to behave as an artist. It's the realm of intellectual debate. Actually, more and more my direction is trying to get further away from being self-conscious of what the parameters are of the mainstream, where it intersects with the underground.

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.

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