I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.

People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.

Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

Well I think comedy everywhere has lost a bit of its bite. In Canada, I can't argue with the quality, but it feels like it's gotten a little safe.

I first got into fruit when I was a teenager, when my life was changing in every way. The first time I had a mango, at like 18, I was like, 'Where has this been my whole life?

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.