My father started his own business, and before that was a freelance lecturer, and my friends are artists and musicians; they don't have real jobs - none of us have real jobs.

In this business, TV is being taken up not by the true artists or the actors or the musicians any more, they are just being taken up by the common man, which gives everyone that feeling that there's a chance for me yet to be a star.

You fire blanks, but the guns eject real brass, hot cartridges. They're, like, 400 degrees.

I got the 'I don't want the normal job' bug. At home, we have countless career advisors who would tell us to work in department stores and stay below the bar and not overreach our grasp. I didn't believe any of them.

[Working with such a wide array of artists also] made my singing better, ... I needed to be with musicians to reinforce me.

This should put some steel in their spine. Canadians overwhelmingly understand that musicians and other artists are harmed by illegal file-swapping and deserve better protection under the law.