When I started out making music I thought it was about thrills and adding layers, but I realized I want to focus on saying the most with the least.

Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.

I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.

You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

Never give up and never give in. The truth always finds a way to be told.

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.

Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born.

I'm not an urban person.

There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: fierceness on a scale only gods can summon.

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.

I'm not a famous celebrity of any kind. I'm a guy from Edmonton who's got a great job and I'm loving it.

There was I thinking being a shifter had its upsides. Looks like I was wrong.