I'm a bit of a control freak, so I always appreciate being inside the nuts and bolts of the music - I don't like newer programs that paper over your cracks.

Here's the thing with lyrics: Words are just another musical instrument.

A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films.

It's easy to not work on my album. I go out to the cinema, catch up with friends, eat, watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - that sort of thing.

Making music is a total hassle, really.

Most of the lyrics are rooted in my own experiences. But there is some sheer fabrication.

I hope nobody I wrote about becomes too upset.

Someone explained parallax error to me, and I thought Ah, with a cheap camera, it would be pretty easy to behead someone.

There was a time when beheadings were in the public mind because people around the world were getting their heads cut off for various reasons.

What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing.

The internet becomes too arch. The clip is uploaded and reuploaded endlessly with banner headlines and crappy 3-D graphics. Stuff rots in this supposedly clinical space.

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous… but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

Instead of an elegant warning, you need to bring a strong deal. That's the only way you'll gain what you want.

Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

Canadians don't have a very big political lever, we're nice guys.

The angels stand between us and God, but they are translucent, even transparent, and they beckon us to penetrate their luminosity.

I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.