Local Influences Quotes

I grew up in Vancouver, man. That's where more than half of my style comes from.

I guess I see 'Goo' half as a really New York record because I think there are a lot of really particular New York references on it, but I also see it, for us, as the first of our records that really opened up to the larger world around us.

When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren't for Toronto.

In my mind, my music is kind of inseparable from my hometown and my life growing up.

It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.

I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.

Virginia Beach is just such a melting pot for so many different things, and they just have so many influences. I would always say that the area definitely influences Play Cloths. The area itself just has so many influences, whether it be fashion, music, everything.

I am completely attached to my roots, and therefore you will see a Pahadi touch in all my albums.