I was very spiritual as a kid. I think I felt and thought about things a lot more deeply than most of the other kids my age. I wanted to help people.

I try to keep my private life private.

I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.

I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.

I came from a huge extended family of musicians.

I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently.

I grew up reading comics. I was primarily an 'X-Men' fan, but I definitely dressed up as Spider-Man for Halloween when I was, like, 12 years old. Maybe younger than that.

I'm at the National Theatre School, which is like the Juilliard of Canada.

'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,' if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for a pop song, pretty deep and dark.

I am definitely someone who needs to take a second by myself and stretch and breathe before a show.

I grew up in Canada and was a huge Spider-Man fan, and never thought of Spider-Man as an American hero.

I just think the world ought to be more sort of organized.''That's just fantasy, ' said Twoflower.'I know. That's the trouble.' Rincewind sighed again.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.

Everything in my life is a fragile decision that somebody else made.

I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.

I think I'm very easily inspired. People, wildlife, nature, music, art. I think that I'm lucky that I have this great sense of wonderment about life in general.

In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down.

The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.

I couldn't touch my toes with straight legs, but I could break 4 minutes for the mile.

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves.