Emily Haines Quotes

I don't really write journals and stuff and then adapt them to music, it's completely within the form of the song. My great obsession and basically the bane of my existence is caring probably too much about every word, but it's too late to change my career path.

Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to acutally live take a lot of courage.

I think that every band is different, and in fact that's one of the biggest problems with the old-school music industry is that ... one band would be successful according to a certain approach, and then every other band in the label gets sent down the same tube.

It's a strange life ... you really don't know how you will impact people or how things will play out.

I love to read about music and about art, but I don't try and take things about mythology or guidelines as to how I'm to behave as an artist. It's the realm of intellectual debate. Actually, more and more my direction is trying to get further away from being self-conscious of what the parameters are of the mainstream, where it intersects with the underground.

Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought.

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.

I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out.

Oftentimes the most produced and synth-tastic songs are the ones that end up sounding the best acoustic.

The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things.

I am really inspired by writers, and weirdly - respect music journalists, which I think makes me the exception amongst most musicians. I think it's a craft. I think it's been really neglected - sadly. I think about the days of the great legendary rock critics. Who's going to become that when magazines and newspapers don't pay anyone properly or don't seem to respect the history or research that is required?

For as long as I can remember, I have written songs because I wanted to, because I was experiencing something that couldn't be described except through a sound.

Believe in the power of songs,

The nature of making music and making art, what motivates me is that it's interesting. It's interesting to listen, to really listen to other people's point-of-view. Take in their work. Listen to the way they sing. Listen to the way they write lyrics. What they are trying to express.

Life is passing you by as you speak, you're on a path and you're all on the same path toward death.