It's great when you can just focus your whole attention on the music and hear all of the decisions and choices that were made.

I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and confused and alone... just like everybody else.

Since I was 15 I've felt kinda like... an old man.

Michael Cera was born in Canada in 1988 at the tender age of zero.

If someone wants to be a part of your life, they’ll be there. So don’t bother saving a spot for someone who won’t make an effort to stay.

It's so easy to get caught up in your own self-doubt when you're writing. It can be so easy to tell yourself, "Who am I kidding?"

Most of the 16-year-olds I know are snotty brats that I wish I didn't know.

I worry more about something that isn't working rather than something that feels really good. You forget about the good stuff.

I could not work for a long time. I don't spend very much money. Basically I spend money on food and DVDs.

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

I like to write. I like to do that when I'm not working so I don't go totally crazy, and so I feel like I'm still doing something constructive.

Good books often answer questions you didn't even know you wanted to ask

Never give up, but learn to surrender as well

We are the estranged orphans of our nations and tribes, and we now bear the weight not of survival of the group but of personal identity.

Through the night we drove in a tangle of waking and sleeping, nightmares from hell and holy white dreams.

We enter the world alone we leave it alone.

I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.

Be yourself, you’ll be a lot happier.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.