With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.

I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss.

Very good training to just be a person is growing up in Canada. People say a lot of things about Canada, like that it's boring, but if you look around the world, you can praise boring. It's a very civilized place to grow up. I'm very proud of it.

I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.

The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens.