It's important for people not to feel like doing things that are immature, stuff you have to try out when you're a teenager, is bad, per se. Demonizing it is one of the reasons it becomes such an issue.

I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I'm making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do.

In America there's lot of cool cities, but in Canada there's, like, well, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax may be cool, but they're so expensive. Montreal is the only city that's affordable but also has buses and culture.

I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.

Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.

I don't know if I would ever have costume changes - usually I just end up taking off my shoes, I get so sweaty, and... I just need to be comfortable.

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.