When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

GYBE are among my, erm, two favourite Montreal bands, Arcade Fire being the other.

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.