Especially with music, people want confidence.

For I am coconut / and the heart of me / is sweeter / than you know.

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

I like creating beauty out of scary things.

I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal.

Before you hate something you should try to understand it.

I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel.

From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.

If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.

Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn't mean it's not important or relevant.

Forgiveness is the most compassionate way toward the peace.

I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.

'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.

We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

Times don't change. Men do.

Some people come into your life and leave a mark.