“I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace ...” — Neko Case Quote

“I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm. Kind of like a Faustian thing, I think.”

“I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.”

“I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I thought, 'Let's get as many free pianos as we can and stick them all in the barn.' I got eight in a short period of time, only six of which were tunable, but it's still quite funny.”

“Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.”

“There's just kind of a sweetness about Canadians. Americans are a little more pushy, I mean, in a way that I enjoy - they're basically pushy because of their enthusiasm - we're a lot clumsier than other people.”

“I tried to have more than one emotion on the record.”

“Sometimes there's that perfect moment when the crowd, the music, the energy of the room come together in a way that brings me to tears.”

“I haven't left the house without a packet of Kleenex in my back pocket for as long as I can remember. Whenever I start thinking I'm incredibly cool, the packet of Kleenex in my back pocket brings me right back down to earth.”

“In order to get somewhere in life, you need to have a vision. The vision brings you to the table. Without a vision, you just do what everybody else does and you are just there.”

“We had to do a lot of rehearsals to get it so that it was playable. What it did was make you practice. That's good for any musician to have that kind of pressure. It brings things out of you that might not come out if you don't have to reach for something all the time.”

“'A Streetcar Named Desire' is the play I've probably read the most times in my life, and I love the weirdness of all the scene outs but especially the end of the second scene, when Williams brings a tamale vendor on stage to simply say, 'Red hot!'”