Taboos are always going to be interesting.Our [ with Michael Dumontier] style has its range and there is room for explicitness in violence, but not at the expense of our classy, highbrow image.

I had so many ideas that I wanted to get out at once that it led to simple little drawings and paintings.

I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.

The Winnipeg Art Gallery has a good collection of Inuit art, and most of what I've seen I've seen there or in the few books I have. I should spend more time researching.

I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.

I don't teach. I don't think I could. I also don't really do anything else artistically, locally.

Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.

Baba always used to say that as we age, things change, we become more rigid, and then eventually, most of us, become forgiving again. He called it the cycle of life.

With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris into a bottle.

I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.

It's like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things.

You cannot hurt me. Only I can do that.

[On U.S. universities:] The bland leading the bland.

Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.

A bevy of fair women.

Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.