I actually write a lot, but mostly just daily gibberish. I am a documentation addict: "I just peed. I walked down the hallway. I dropped my pencil. I just aged a minute."

You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.

Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.

I love a lot of people in bands and people doing weird art stuff, but i will always forget someone and i don't really want to be part of stamping the boundaries on a scene.

I have always felt a little held back by working with other people in recording.

I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer.

I hope to incorporate more variety of beats, more syncopation. It becomes very easy to play straight beats; straight rock is alluring.

Maybe people are finally tiring of watered down grunge rock on the radio.

I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic.

It's really nice to have things to mail to people when they mail you things, or trade to people at shows. Something homemade, it feels... down to earth.

I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.

Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.

It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.

Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.

If you can't trust your coke dealer, who can you trust?

A generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity.

I think every athlete has their window of opportunity, and you just have to jump on it. You never know when it can end. So I'm just trying to live large while I have the opportunity.

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.

If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.

I once heard someone doing a karaoke version of my song. That was pretty funny.

Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself.