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.

Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.

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

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

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

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

I was in a crazy, private, awesome bubble again, and that's when I started to write.