Emily Haines Quotes

It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.

I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.

It's a strange life... you really don't know how you will impact people or how things will play out.

Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to actually live take a lot of courage.

Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.

I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out.

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.

Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought.

It's not my fault that people are perverts.

[When] you're a writer, you know that a lot of times you have to sneak up on yourself in order to achieve what you want to achieve, and sometimes you don't even know what it is until you've done it.

Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.

Life is passing you by as you speak, you're on a path and you're all on the same path toward death.

It's very hard to separate what is a conscious decision and what's not.

For as long as I can remember, I have written songs because I wanted to, because I was experiencing something that couldn't be described except through a sound.

There are lots of people in the world whose existence doesn't revolve around American culture.

I think more like Charlie Chaplin than like Jennifer Anniston.

I try not to focus on the gender issue too much but I think you have to acknowledge it in order for it to go away.

I like the idea of interviews where you just talk about stuff instead of where it's my chance to talk to my public through something else.

Oftentimes the most produced and synth-tastic songs are the ones that end up sounding the best acoustic.

The things that I've seen where people are trying to change the definition of what a band has to be, those are the things that end up being inspiring.

You don't want to be conscious of everything.

I see how 14-year old girls react to me and I think I'm a good role model. Rockstar maybe not, but I'm willing to play with it for a little while, until my hair gets gray.

I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was born in India but I was raised in Canada.

I'm a chick for sure.

[When I happen to] read interviews where people are such pros and they come out looking so good, [it comes off as] a little smug or something.

I do like touring but my life sort of starts to fall apart under it after a certain point. So you just have to stop. And it's hard to.

In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians.

The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things.

We don't have T-shirts with my face, but there I can see the beginnings, especially young girls seeing me as sort of a icon in that way. And in that regard I'm more than happy to step in.

I really love traveling, I love playing.

I think a sexual energy is a positive energy.

This is the thing I've noticed is that the greater the distance between you and any ordinary task is the measurement of how much rockstar potential you have.

Believe in the power of songs.