One of the wonderful things about music these days is that it's less cliqueish.

- John K. Samson

In this frightening, anxious time to be alive it can be liberating to remember that nothing lasts forever. That can focus and invigorate our hopes.

- John K. Samson

I was listening to this interview with fiction writer George Saunders the other day, and he said something about how the role of a writer is to build…

- John K. Samson

I try to write lyrics that will be able to function on their own if they get separated from the music. But I wouldn't want to take anything away from…

- John K. Samson

I listened to lots of other kinds of music, but punk is what allowed me to actually play music.

- John K. Samson

A more detailed world is a more complicated and complex one, and therefore a more empathetic one. I feel Gord's Downie lyrics are exceptionally empat…

- John K. Samson

No one else writes like Gord Downie, so it's difficult to compare him. He can work in the abstract and still somehow be really specific. He lets part…

- John K. Samson

There are definitely parts of me in most of the protagonists I write, but I find a bit of distance can be useful, so I often find myself better able …

- John K. Samson

I think we all have a certain number of "coming of age" songs, and then a writer has to expand and grow into more varied and specific themes. And the…

- John K. Samson