My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.

We should be teaching Canadian civics and values to new immigrants, and we haven't been doing that as a society.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.