You don't want to be conscious of everything.

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 really love traveling, I love playing.

I think more like Charlie Chaplin than like Jennifer Anniston.

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.

Of course there are influences, of course there are things that are inspiring, but it's weird to think that I'm trying to keep a mental inventory of them and report them clearly to whomever might ask.

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