I think more like Charlie Chaplin than like Jennifer Anniston.

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

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

[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.

Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.

I try not to focus on the gender issue too much but I think you have to acknowledge it in order for it to go away.

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.