I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.

I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist.

Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

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 do have this reputation for being a serious person.

When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.