Latest Emily Haines Quotes from Interviews

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• I see how 14-year old girls react to me and I think I'm a good role model. Rockstar maybe not, but I'm willing to play with it for a little while, until my hair gets gray.

  Emily Haines

  Girl, Thinking, Years

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

• I like the idea that you would participate in mainstream culture, especially for young girls and young kids who are looking for an alternative. It's not that I'm superior, but I know that my heart is in it more than people who get into music for other reasons.

  Emily Haines

  Girl, Heart, Kids

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

• We don't have T-shirts with my face, but there I can see the beginnings, especially young girls seeing me as sort of a icon in that way. And in that regard I'm more than happy to step in.

  Emily Haines

  Girl, Icons, Steps

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

• The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live vicariously through you, so you have to pursue more and more unpleasant pastimes in order to satisfy the armchair people. That's a kind of scary existence.

  Emily Haines

  Self, Order, People

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

• I think more like Charlie Chaplin than like Jennifer Anniston.

  Emily Haines

  Thinking, Chaplin, Jennifer

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

• [When I happen to] read interviews where people are such pros and they come out looking so good, [it comes off as] a little smug or something.

  Emily Haines

  People, Littles, Interviews

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

• This is the thing I've noticed is that the greater the distance between you and any ordinary task is the measurement of how much rockstar potential you have.

  Emily Haines

  Distance, Ordinary, Tasks

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

• Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

  Emily Haines

  Summer, Rocks, Indie Rock

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

• I like the idea of interviews where you just talk about stuff instead of where it's my chance to talk to my public through something else.

  Emily Haines

  Ideas, Stuff, Interviews

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

• In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians.

  Emily Haines

  Musician, Would Be, World

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

• You feel like you're trying to show off your cool by mentioning the five bands that you know are great and the five books that will reflect well on you. I can't do it. I should take the time to but I don't want to take the time to do that.

  Emily Haines

  Book, Trying, Want

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

• Of course there are influences, of course there are things that are inspiring, but it's weird to think that I'm trying to keep a mental inventory of them and report them clearly to whomever might ask.

  Emily Haines

  Thinking, Trying, Inventory

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

• The things that I've seen where people are trying to change the definition of what a band has to be, those are the things that end up being inspiring.

  Emily Haines

  People, Trying, Band

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

• You don't want to be conscious of everything.

  Emily Haines

  Want, Conscious

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

• There are lots of people in the world whose existence doesn't revolve around American culture.

  Emily Haines

  People, Culture, World

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

• In Canada there's an extensive grant system that really allows people to make their work without having to suffer that much, and I'm staring to come around on that, that maybe people don't have to suffer. Maybe you can just not be unhappy and make beautiful music in Canada, maybe that's ok.

  Emily Haines

  Beautiful, People, Suffering

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

• I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was born in India but I was raised in Canada.

  Emily Haines

  Identity, Canada, India

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

• I always felt like I had to leave Canada, which I think is a common perspective - feeling as if you have to leave because otherwise you'll be too soft, and that objective reality exists in America. And I'm starting to feel like that doesn't have to be the case.

  Emily Haines

  Reality, Thinking, America

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

• I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.

  Emily Haines

  Thinking, Political, Would Be

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

• I think a sexual energy is a positive energy.

  Emily Haines

  Thinking, Positive Energy, Energy

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

• That's the main work that I've done in my life - really wanting to get past that gender trap where there's a certain nudity in poetry. It's not about showing my soul, it's about observations.

  Emily Haines

  Past, Soul, Done

  Source: www.popmatters.com

• It's not my fault that people are perverts.

  Emily Haines

  People, Faults

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

• I'm a chick for sure.

  Emily Haines

  Chicks

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

• Certain audiences get the double meaning and some of the references and ironies, but there's definitely been shows where I feel like I'm not doing it well enough for it to come across as anything other than "oh, she's hot and she's dancing."

  Emily Haines

  Dancing, Hot, Irony

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

• I try not to focus on the gender issue too much but I think you have to acknowledge it in order for it to go away.

  Emily Haines

  Thinking, Issues, Order

  Source: www.popmatters.com