It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

I'm also alternative because of Canada - there's something romantic about being Canadian. We're a relatively unpopulated, somewhat civilized, and clean and resourceful country. I always push the fact that I'm Canadian.

To dance is human, to polka is divine.

I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.

I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.