Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.

I hang my laundry on the line when I write.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

people will tell you were they have gone, they'll tell you where to go, but until you get there for yourself you never really know.

Rationally I have no hope, irrationally I believe in miracles.

But you know it's hard to tell When you're in the spell if it's wrong or if it's real But you're bound to lose If you let the blues get you scared to feel

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.