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" I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana. "

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" My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn't mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But it's good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable. "

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" I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar. "

" I couldn't see passion as a bad thing. "

" I'm a little young for retirement. "

" My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s. "

" I see bodies as individual things. "

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" I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. "

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" White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant. "

" I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it. "

" I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them. "

" This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms. "

" You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining. "

" The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet. "

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" Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about. "

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" I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue. "

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" I'm a night owl. "

" There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. "