If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.

I think my music's kind of cold, but I don't know if it's related to the weather. It might be because it's always grey [in Montreal], it's very depressing.

It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it's really important for me to not break the groove.

I prefer making videos to making music.

If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there's always a narrative that is very nonlinear - and that's the essence of a good music video.

If I think about what other people are thinking when I'm making music, I just can't do it. It's too withheld - I need to go totally over the top, and then kind of clean it up a bit and make it more reasonable after the fact.

From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.