The lesson there is that there's no hiding the sound of a band that is bored with its own music. Whatever it takes to create the sound of excitement, that's what you want to do.

I was struck by the effortless way they moved between musical styles, all the while managing to make each their own. It was instantaneous that I knew I wanted to work with them.

I can't think of very many people who work as hard at the craft of songcraft as Gord Downie does. It was life or death. Every syllable was important.

Gord Downie is extraordinary. It's safe to say there's nobody like that guy that I've ever come across.

This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.

There is a certain transcendent joy in creating a thing of beauty. But even more fulfilling is to become a being of beauty.

We must recognize that we cannot depend on the governments of the world to abolish war because they and the economic interests they represent benefit from war.

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

Death came, Death went, but Commerce flowed Eternal.

It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery.

Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.

I am actually nondenominational.

Ive got a ton of stories about Chuck Knox, ... Over the course of my playing career, there was nobody that I learned to respect and appreciate more than I did Chuck Knox.

I'm not even sure who my audience is.