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'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.

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Grow, Like, Been, My Self

Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more.

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Living, More, Like, Surreal

I get really scared about how the Internet is shifting and changing everyone's minds, and the way we see ourselves and interact online. Everything is so diluted now.

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Everyone, About, Interact, Diluted

There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

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Love, Nation, Potency, Diluted

Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.

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Love, Some, Other, Voltaire

Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

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Luck, Big, Very, Pot

Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.

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Instinct, Show, I Think, Chatter

Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.

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Commercialism, Creatively, Stamina

The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.

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Idea, Ensemble, Equally, Metals

I once looked over the shoulder of a friend on Facebook and it looked like hieroglyphs to me. There's merit online, of course, but social media gets super freaky. Imagine if three generations from now, people online have forgotten what date or day of the week it is.

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Week, Date, Generations, Shoulder

When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.

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Buy, Almost, Necessarily, Prophecy

So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.

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Stupid, Dancing, Great Place, Pure Joy

There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all.

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Goodwill, I Think, Almost, Flips

There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.

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Line, Been, Planted, Vantage Point

I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.

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Need, Like, Therapy, Stone

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

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Death, London, Read, Dickens

After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!

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Love, Fact, Country, Scraps

I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.

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Been, Half, Right Arm, Arm

When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'

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Doing, Other, James, Triangle

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

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Living, Found, Wrote, Verse

'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.

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Songwriting, Had, Bit, Frame

I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.

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Book, Play, Other, Backing

I remember doing my mosaics or being in my little hiding place behind the couch snooping. I'd get bored sometimes, of course, but I think that's good for a kid, because it forces you to be creative.

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Doing, Behind, I Remember, Bored

There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.

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Nothing, Happen, Going, Not Knowing

I live and die by puns.

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Live, Die, Puns

I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.

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Studios, Proper, Spent, Appeals

On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I'm not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me.

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Dancing, Sound, Other, Naive

I made the first Feist album in '98. So at that point, it was my nickname. It was as far as with my circle of friends, and just felt more accurate than two names.

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Album, Made, Accurate, Nickname

And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.

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Positive, Simplicity, About, Pop Music

I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.

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Flag, Canadian, Though, Syrup

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