Boundaries Quote by John K. Samson

I do get a little shy about contemporary language and events, but I also enjoy the idea of dating myself, somehow, anchoring a song…

— John K. Samson

In my mind I still qualify as punk, though I know four out of five punks would disagree.

— John K. Samson

I've always viewed my career with some suspicion, like I don't want to count on it to be the only thing I do. Partly…

— John K. Samson

I was listening to this interview with fiction writer George Saunders the other day, and he said something about how the role of a…

— John K. Samson

A more detailed world is a more complicated and complex one, and therefore a more empathetic one. I feel Gord's Downie lyrics are exceptionally…

— John K. Samson

One of the wonderful things about music these days is that it's less cliqueish.

— John K. Samson

I try to write lyrics that will be able to function on their own if they get separated from the music. But I wouldn't…

— John K. Samson

I think we all have a certain number of "coming of age" songs, and then a writer has to expand and grow into more…

— John K. Samson

John Berger once defined music by saying that it began as a howl, became a prayer, then a lament, and still contains the elements…

— John K. Samson

No one else writes like Gord Downie, so it's difficult to compare him. He can work in the abstract and still somehow be really…

— John K. Samson

That's something I've certainly taken from writers like Gord Downie is that there is a whole potential for breaking out of meter. Even if…

— John K. Samson

There are definitely parts of me in most of the protagonists I write, but I find a bit of distance can be useful, so…

— John K. Samson