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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once. ”
Birth was the death of him. ”
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death. ”
Montreal is my home town - I love it to death - but Toronto, I think, might have to be the best market in Canada. From a numbers perspective, it definitely is. The fans are incredible, and every time we go there, it sells out. It's awesome, and the fans are incredible. ”
I want to leave a legacy behind that is undeniable. ”
I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death. ”
London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net. Still, you had to hope the ones you got were good. ”
Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.' ”
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. ”
Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private. ”