“An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.” Quote by Carey Mercer
“Live is best. You have movement, and I think we should do as much as we can to put that sense of movement in the recorded music.” Thinking Author:Carey Mercer
“We're a live band. Some bands write their songs in the studio - we don't do that. We're playing songs on this tour that were written three days before the tour. And it feels good to try these songs.” WritingTryingSongFeel Good Author:Carey Mercer
“It's pretty awesome to be in a band with your wife! The tour, it beats you down, and we can just share that, and sometimes revel in the experience. If she wasn't here, or she was just here as a civilian, she maybe would feel uncomfortable.” SometimesWifeShareUncomfortable Author:Carey Mercer
“Tour is disgusting, actually, I have no idea how people do it. Your brain would go to rot, unless you really, really worked hard at making sure it didn't.” PeopleBrainDisgusting Author:Carey Mercer
“Ten people who are into our music is better than three hundred people who are just standing there.” PeopleMusic Is Author:Carey Mercer
“You don't expect people to go, "music has just been reinvented!" But the hope is that people won't say, "this is the most boring cliché." I mean, that's one of my pursuits, is trying to not become a cliché, or get stuck in that. But even that's a cliché in itself! It's difficult! But I think it's worth it.... It's a real vicious circle there.” PeopleThinkingTryingMeanRealDifficultBoringStuckWorth It Author:Carey Mercer
“I'm really happy that people are starting to hear my band, and we are so happy to be conduits for all this other happiness, and this emotional response. So, I can't be like, "that doesn't matter to me, I'm an artist, I exist apart from that!" But on the other hand, if you buy into that too much, you're setting yourself up... if I start thinking, "well, people at the show really liked one song, maybe I should write more songs like that," then I'm in trouble.” PeopleThinkingWritingArtistSongTroubleEmotionalResponseReally Happy Author:Carey Mercer
“Part of the reason we're all committed to coordinated stimulus is we want to stimulate the global economy. We're in a global economy, not just our national economies.p” ReasonEconomyCommittedGlobal Economy Author:Stephen Harper
“If we start thinking simply nationally, and we start having policies that try and restrict the benefits only within our borders, and try and implement protectionist measures as a consequence, this will not have the effect we need to have on the global economy. And that's ultimately the global economy that's pulling most of us down, particularly countries like Canada, that aren't the source of these current economic troubles.” ThinkingTryingCountryEconomyTroubleEconomicPolicyConsequenceGlobal Economy Author:Stephen Harper
“We're always willing to look at ways NAFTA can work better. But it's a fine line between looking at ways to make it work better and actually starting to open the agreement. I think, if you actually opened the agreement, I think you would get into a negotiation that - that would never terminate.” ThinkingNegotiation Author:Stephen Harper