When I'm on stage I don't say anything. The last thing I want to do is share my thoughts. I don't know if that's mysterious - maybe it's just old fas….

The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become..

I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one w….

I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song..

I'm just kind of lazy and messed up and self-managed - self-mismanaged..

Big, evocative words get thrown around, and people can sing along to passionately as if the lyrics just materialized out of the ether, largely becaus….

People say I write specifically about nothing in particular. I don't know about the latter part, but I think the first part is really important in co….

I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm no….

I don't banter with the audience, cause I don't have anything to say to them, and I'm not feeling any sense of ease or camaraderie when I'm on stage..

I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad..

I was born in 1972, which means that in "rock" terms I have no business addressing "the kids" unless it's to shoo them out of my garden..

Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things..

Generally, if you could picture a bunch of rock and roll momentum behind a song and it was particularly melodious, maybe the Pornographers would do i….

I was a member of the band when it was just, like, a conversation at a bar. Then we constantly practiced, we played shows, we tooled around in the st….

I guess my guitar parts are usually precise, but the execution of those parts is downright treacherous, since I'm not very good on guitar..

No one appreciates a professional anymore. Everyone's a mystic. Which is why I take drunk Jim over acid Jim - the argument all roads eventually lead ….

Of course, no lyrics are ever unintentional, but I think bands like Wolf Parade and the Arcade Fire have a tendency to touch on big themes without re….

I'm more focused as a singer and hands-on with music and more exacting, and less trying to furiously fit a thousands thoughts into a four minute song..

I like playing music. I don't always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don't think I'm, like, a natural performer, but I'm getting better..

Kaputt was just a record that did really well for us, and therefore our record label and our booking agent said that we should go out and take our me….

Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to do with sabotage..