"When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important."

“True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.”

“Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during the 1970s], so I hope I did all right. Otherwise, it could be the biggest embarrassment of my life. Also, the story is not linear, it's patchy, like a cubist painting, and there is always the possibility it will not hold together, it will fall apart. The tone is part satire, part serious drama, part tragedy, all mixed together, and it has to hit an emotional core. That's also very scary.”

“The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much / to you.”

Source : Claudia Rankine (2014). “Citizen: An American Lyric”, p.127, Macmillan

“Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.”

Source : "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satire V, line 151,

“I can't think of very many people who work as hard at the craft of songcraft as Gord Downie does. It was life or death. Every syllable was important.”

“Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss case and the Oppenheimer hearings; certainly one saw it in the trial of Oscar Wilde.”

“I existed until I met you. Now I'm alive.”

Source : Cindy Gerard (2007). “To the Brink”, p.110, Macmillan

“I will honor my ancestors in StarClan," Bramblestar vowed, "but not those who have ever walked in the Dark Forest. Guide my steps wisely, warriors of the past." He lowered his head. "And warriors of now".”