I never performed on drugs. That'd be stupid. It's the same thing with athletes. They can't perform when they have cocaine problems.
I get outside a lot. I am a huge champion of physical activity. It's so important.
I think if you're a lady playing a guitar, other ladies need to see you playing the guitar, and they don't need to see men come out and fix your equipment for you. It just looks incredibly pussy. So I just do it all myself.
I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.
I think my songwriting might be a little more on the darker side maybe.
There are things about the production I'm not crazy about though. People mix records to be heard in cars and to have the bass incredibly loud so the vocals have to fight with everything so there's no dynamic left, and that's kind of a bummer. That may not be my taste but I'm not going to go, "Kanye's not very good," because he's pretty badass. It's a difference in taste, like the New Pornographers and myself have different taste in production as well but it all works out in the end.
I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I thought, 'Let's get as many free pianos as we can and stick them all in the barn. ' I got eight in a short period of time, only six of which were tunable, but it's still quite funny.
Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me. ' Will you?' said he, offering his hand. Indeed I will. You have shown that you can dance, and you know we are not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper. ' Brother and sister! no, indeed.
A lot of people with the purest motivation end up getting completely burned out. And that's because they lack the wisdom and the skill and the inner space.
I'm really blessed with the people in my life who keep me on track and keep pushing me forward.
Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.