I think Canadians make a lot of music because we're stuck inside all the time.

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.

If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically.

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

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.

If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.

I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no monitors standing in front of guitar amps in a shitty, smoky warehouse where people were screaming and wasted, knocking over my gear. So shows after that seem pretty easy!