If I’m to be an ‘ist’ then, like Bobby Kennedy, I’m probably more of a free market capitalist than an environmentalist. Rather than wanting to tell people to be less bad, I’m saying let’s make it fair across the board and stop subsidizing the big heavy-polluting fat cats, let’s make it a level playing field. Gord Downie Read Quote
It will take 150 years or seven generations to heal the wound of the residential school. Gord Downie Read Quote
I think you have to show people it’s cool and fun to work together. It’s your obligation. If you can’t do it, who can you expect to do it? Gord Downie Read Quote
Rock ‘n’ roll is not unlike love. You find it oddly strangely comforting that no matter how old you get, when it comes to matters of the heart, you’re always 15 inside. Gord Downie Read Quote
I like hanging with my family and helping them on their way however I can. There’s a new tragicomedy every half-hour, there is laughter, there are tears, and it’s all real. They are endlessly entertaining, they have given me so much, they’ve given me a chance to ‘see’ things again. Gord Downie Read Quote
Being a dad, and being in a rock band, it’s harder than it looks. But we tried. And we try. Gord Downie Read Quote
I want my kids to be good. I want them to be safe and have a great, long life. And take what they need from me and leave what they don’t. Definitely leave what they don’t. Gord Downie Read Quote
