There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.

My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didnt mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But its good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.

I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me...

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

Acid, booze, and ass, needles, guns, and grass, lots of laughs.