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

Gatekeeper was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I havent written many like that.

I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.

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.

Everything becomes closer once you realize that the world is only as far away as a nap and a meal.

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

There's something about live recordings now that's too hi-fi.