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I always like to have a glimmer of hopefulness, even in collapse. - Gord Downie

I write lyrics. putting words and melodies to my songs. That's a real challenge, I take it on vigorously. - Gord Downie

You have to - you have to allow something to tell you what it wants to be. - Gord Downie

We did reach a wider audience with 'SNL,' but it's hard to know what attracts people to your band in the long run. - Gord Downie

I'm a dancer. It's what I love to do more than anything. - Gord Downie

I want my kids to be good. I want them to be safe and have a great, long life. And take what they need from me and leave what they don't. Definitely leave what they don't. - Gord Downie

I'm not a rock star writing poetry. I don't feel like a rock star and I don't know what one is, actually. I'm a goalie/poet or a hotel guest/poet or a father/poet. - Gord Downie

As you get older, you mellow, but there's a natural propensity to watch what you say, 'cause you learn that you want more time and space to craft what you want to say because you're less likely to want to say impetuous things, or things that aren't thought-out properly. - Gord Downie

As we move towards resolution and understanding and greater serenity in all aspects of our life, love's pretty elemental and that's nice to know. I think rock 'n' roll is the same. I don't pretend to understand it; it feels confusing and frightening and wonderful. - Gord Downie

If I'm to be an 'ist' then, like Bobby Kennedy, I'm probably more of a free market capitalist than an environmentalist. Rather than wanting to tell people to be less bad, I'm saying let's make it fair across the board and stop subsidizing the big heavy-polluting fat cats, let's make it a level playing field. - Gord Downie

I have no illusions of the future. Or maybe it's all illusion. I don't know. I've always been ready for it. - Gord Downie

I work every day. I write every day. I walk around in silent conversation with my latest unfinished songs. - Gord Downie

Rock 'n' roll is not unlike love. You find it oddly strangely comforting that no matter how old you get, when it comes to matters of the heart, you're always 15 inside. - Gord Downie

Even 'The Inevitability of Death' is kind of a funny song more than anything. I mean, I thought it would be funny imagining radio deejays cueing it up and announcing it as people are driving off to work. - Gord Downie

Canada is not Canada. We are not the country we think we are. - Gord Downie

It's time to listen to the stories of the Indigenous; we are blessed as a country to look to the wisdom of a really old country. - Gord Downie

Music brings people together. So my function in anything I do is to help bring people closer in. - Gord Downie

To be honest, I think affiliation is anathema - if you're a rock 'n' roller, you're a lone wolf. - Gord Downie

It will take 150 years or seven generations to heal the wound of the residential school. - Gord Downie

To become a country, and truly call ourselves Canada, it means we must become one. - Gord Downie

Life's too short for bad coffee. - Gord Downie

Bob Rock taught me a lot. His friendship has taught me a lot about what you should expect from a recording session and, more importantly, how you shouldn't expect anything less than absolute joyousness. You should feel great. You should feel 14 to be doing it. It's true and it's rare. - Gord Downie

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