I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging around the mental trunks.

Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene its not one-on-one, its a one-on-12. Its very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

I think I prefer the constant renewal. It's almost like sandpapering down any details or any contour of familiarities.

Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about what happened anymore. It would be impossible.

You hit a guitar, you hit a note, you hit a drum, you hit an organ. Meat and potatoes. Simplicity. Not getting too caught up in little tweezers of perfection.

I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.

If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.