Being a dad, and being in a rock band, it's harder than it looks. But we tried. And we try.

In the past, when you were just starting out, you had a day and a half of studio time - maybe two, if your buddy's uncle lets you stay.

Within the Universal deal, we've always felt like an independent act. We've never been told what to do. We've used their resources to our own design.

We were big Clash fans, you know, big Who fans and I think we would listen to this music and talk about music and do nothing but music night and day, and when it came time to actually making our own music, you feel compelled to sort of tuck all those influences away, not show them.

Acting is like lifting a 400-pound feather. It's a feather, how hard could it be? And yet, you go to lift it and it's heavy. For that reason, I love it, because it's very hard and difficult and challenging and obviously I want to learn more.

It's a gas, just phoning up some bands and saying: 'You don't know us but we love you and would you come play with us?'

I love dance - trying to express myself wordlessly.

Our sound is nothing like the Doors.

When you write and make music, there's a tendency to save stuff... to be cagey, to be savvy.

When someone gives you a piece of music, they are really giving you a piece of themselves.

The only criterion we used in doing cover material was we wanted to do songs that we wished bands would play when we went out. We were doing Yardbirds and Rolling Stones cover songs-which is not any big deal, but where we were from, all we were getting were Top 40 bands.

I'm not a rock star writing poetry. I don't feel like a rock star and I don't know what one is, actually. I'm a goalie/poet or a hotel guest/poet or a father/poet.

We've played on 'Saturday Night Live' and got not even a Rolling Stone review.

I've changed like crazy. I know I have, 'cause I work at it.

It will take 150 years or seven generations to heal the wound of the residential school.

The Bruins have become so much more to me than some boyhood fascination.

I was a rink rat growing up. I was a goalie and my father was a busy father of five, so he would come when he could. When he did show up, I'd look up and there he would be.

The Sadies have the ability to create soundscapes, and to put you in places.

Once we went into the basement and learned a song, we felt successful. Then we learned two songs, and then we got a gig, and on and on - and that's the way musicians think. I don't know about other people - I mean, I don't know about all musicians either - but some are more driven than others.

We got instant gratification when we would slip in one of our own songs and people would cheer. We started getting a lot of gratification from writing.

When we started in university we were wearing lampshades on our heads and playing wacky covers like 'I'm a Believer.'

You know, I've been hit with a Greb boot in the face and I've been spat on. And my kids light up when they hear these stories. It really takes their minds off their troubles.

I work at being a better member of my family. So I know that that affects and drifts and soaks into my work, and my art.

I like Al Purdy.