I was struck by the effortless way they moved between musical styles, all the while managing to make each their own. It was instantaneous that I knew I wanted to work with them.

I can't think of very many people who work as hard at the craft of songcraft as Gord Downie does. It was life or death. Every syllable was important.

Gord Downie is extraordinary. It's safe to say there's nobody like that guy that I've ever come across.

The lesson there is that there's no hiding the sound of a band that is bored with its own music. Whatever it takes to create the sound of excitement, that's what you want to do.

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.

I am a wildflower in your perfect bed of roses.

I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.

I always tell my kids make your vocation your vacation.

But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with.

The world moves, but we seem to move with it. When I studied physiology beforethere were two hundred and eight bones in the body. Now there are two hundred and thirty- eight.

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.