You're forced to step into that performer role. I can't just hide behind a synthesizer forever.

I'll acknowledge that I'm from Canada but I don't think I'll acknowledge that I'm Canadian.

I don't want to over think anything because the second I do, I start to fail.

I just think if you're gonna play a show you should try and look nice.

Thankfully, I'm not put in a position where I'm made to feel like I can't live my life.

I like writing stories. That's what I like to do. That's the way I see it, but with every song I get sucked into feeling something.

When people all wear the same thing, people notice. They aren't stupid. People don't go, "Oh, you can see right through them!"

I've learned a lot about how to be in a band. It's like being in a marriage to these people. Because there's so many of us, there's a polygamous quality to it, which I've heard is really enjoyable.

I really do just try to tune as much out as I can and make things that I think just sound good to me.

I've always got songs ready to go. It's not a challenge to conjure anything, it's just whether the music I supply is desirable.

I'm totally open to outside opinions and criticism.

The awful penalty of success is the haunting dread of subsequent failure.

Life is always easier when lived for others, and living for others is the best way I know to live for yourself.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God's, and be at peace.

The whole idea of motivation is a trap, forget motivation, just do it

free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.

God created women only to tame men.

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

There is no such thing on this earth as something for nothing.

We can’t say why we search, except that there seems to be an innate need, in each human being, to know who one is, what we’re here for, how to live more poetically.