My great fear is that I'm the ultimate shallow person. I think about this kind of thing a lot, and about this phenomenon in our culture where people identify themselves with their interests. I've been trying not to think about it too much. It used to really upset me when people called me "witch house."

There aren't many other labels who I can say are that successful, and can give me as much as 4AD gives me, and still have such a great roster.

I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.

One thing with Montreal is it's so cold and everyone's so poor and beer's so cheap: if you go to a show you have to brave the weather to get there. So you show up and everyone's soaking wet - there's a sense of 'I trekked through three feet of snow to get here!' I think there's a kind of camaraderie that arises out of that, that's important to me as well.

I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.

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

I prefer making videos to making music.