I formed a band when I was about 13, and we all listened to punk - or what we thought was punk!

I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.

I'm buying records a lot, like, every week I'm just buying old reissues or old originals or new records that I have heard about.

Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years.

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.

It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.

I really love comedy. I love making people laugh. But other things also appeal to me.

The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.

We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.

It starts at midnight.