I didn't retire, I became irrelevant - there is a big difference.

The great thing about Shoot 'Em Up, Baby is that it's the first song that we went and recorded [with Andy Kim].

Obviously, everyone loves someone who appreciates you and puts you on a pedestal.

I had never really written songs for anyone before. With [Broken] Social Scene, you're writing songs for others and your passing them around and exchanging things, but for a man who has the history that Andy Kim had, and has lived the life that he's had, you see such a youthful aspect of how he just wanted to create something again.

There's nothing better than striving to be a better man.

I got a little lost in Law & Order and Luther and all those shows where it's basically women dying all the time, I had to stop watching that stuff because it fills me with anxiety. And I joined a gym.

It's very hard for me to say Do I have favorite? because I find that each song represents a different sounds different emotions in Andy's [Kim] life. Particularly Sister OK, 'cos that started everything.

I wanted to make a very cohesive-sounding album. Anyone who has listened to me and brought me into their living rooms and their bedrooms - I am making this for them.

What would I say about Heaven Without a Gun? For me, to have this man, and our friendship [ with Andy Kim] grew really slowly and very consistently throughout the years before we decided to get into a studio together, I wasn't sure if he wanted to do songs that were pre-written or what. We didn't know what we were getting into.

I could be dramatic and go He saved my life!, but sometimes you just need to see it again. Sometimes you need to see that person want it so badly for all the right reasons, and it makes you realize that no matter what you do you already won.

Everybody has their own ways of wanting to do things.

Being off the road is one of the greatest things ever. It's hard for me to be around my friends who are on the road.

I have great relationships with all my exes, and everyone in my life, because I honor the time and the love and the energy of those relationships. I'm happy to say that I can have everybody over for dinner.

As an artist, expectations are basically your enemy. If you're truly making something to make it, then you're not thinking about anything else except what you're making.