We shouldn't censor ourselves based on the weak idea of "looking cool." It's such a waste of potential awesomeness.

The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.

Every band wants to go believe me, not everybody makes it, but they want to.

I have a pathological fear of getting my picture taken.

I have a hard time taking myself seriously. My band the New Pornographers doesn't take me seriously, which is why I love them. We can't stand up there and pretend. What we're doing is really important to me and it's my job and I love it, but I can't just stand there unflinchingly noble in front of the audience.

The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.

Everybody in my band is married, pretty much, and have lives at home, and I don't want them to be away from their families so long that they just start to feel psychotic. You have to go home and stand around in your bathrobe doing your dishes to feel like a normal person sometimes.