M.J. DeMarco Quotes

Going on tour, you don't have a lot of time to mull things over. You're just kind of, "Another beer, another show, another song."

[Juan Wauters] got the tips for Queens because he grew up there.So him and my roommate, Matt Volz, they hooked me up, New York Style.

[ If I wasn't making music ] I'd probably end up going to school, I never went to school. Or just give up and get my plumber's ticket and move back to Edmonton and become an alcoholic.

I didn't want to play music because the whole family did it. I wanted to work in a cubicle. I saw Office Space as a young tween and missed the point of the movie. I was like, "This looks good!".

I've never done an album in the same place really - I like to be able to remember where I did every single one of them .

I mean it was weird. But Phoenix watched us every night. But it's like they're not even a band, they're like a corporation. They bring a staff of like 40 people.

Their [Phoenix] audience wasn't into us at all. The way most of the venues worked was there was no alcohol on the floor so usually during our set most people were in the lobby getting their drink on.

I think recording at home feels more organic, and injects some more personality into the music.

Rituals help us change modes.

I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted, ' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.

When stress is the problem, slack is the solution.

Good management is the lifeblood of the healthy corporate body. Getting rid of it to save cost is like losing weight by giving blood.

The business we're in is more sociological than technological, more dependent on workers' abilities to communicate with each other than their abilities to communicate with machines.

Your choices are made in a moment, and yet their consequences transcend a lifetime.