Everything Becomes Closer Once You Realize That

Gatekeeper Was Sort Of My First Attempt To Put A Little Bit Of A Frame And Boundaries Around Songwriting, And Try To Figure Out A Way To Approach It That Had A Sort Of End Result In Mind. I Havent Written Many Like That.

I Guess There Are A Lot Of People Out There That Think They're Supposed To Define Themselves In Isolation, But That's Not Necessarily The Case.

Music Is Pretty Intimate Stuff And I Can Only Work With Very Few People: Gonzalez Being One, Mocky Being Another And, On A Completely Different Level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene Its Not One-on-one, Its A One-on-12. Its Very Healthy, Very Comfortable, Like A Big Pot Luck Supper Among Old Friends.

Songwriting Is A Really Fortunate Skill To Have To Frame Living And To Find New Ways To Observe Things You're Going Through.

You Realize Time Isn't Just A Period That You Tell A Story Within - It Becomes A Major Character In The Film. There Is No Beginning, Middle, End Because There Is Always Stuff Beginning And Ending Simultaneously.