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.

I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out.

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.

For as long as I can remember, I have written songs because I wanted to, because I was experiencing something that couldn't be described except through a sound.

I mean that's really depressing man. Of course, the kids are freaking out. They watch cartoons and sit in front of the television and their parents are just probably yuppies who focus their entire lives around the child. The child has no sense of context, no sense of what world they are inhabiting-just like this Disnified bag of Cheerios reality. Don't give them a @#$%& pill! God! Take them out on a canoe already! You know what I mean?

Believe in the power of songs.

I do like touring but my life sort of starts to fall apart under it after a certain point. So you just have to stop. And it's hard to.