73 Quotes by Jane Siberry

It’s all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity – all those things.

You can’t chop down a symmetry.

I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales – where some of my ancestors are from – and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog!

I’d probably be famous now if I wasn’t such a good waitress.

I’d like to see the Second Coming in every one of us. That we all be Jesus. That we all embody that consciousness.

I tour alone. There’s no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts I am in a family home and it’s really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it’s a new relationship being built. It’s odd and wonderful.

As far as I understand, the Second Coming is already here. It’s a consciousness. It is not someone who is going to arrive and land in a clearing in the forest. The Hell that they talk of is going to be people creating their own unhappiness, a Hell on Earth.

So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I’ve had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I’ve been very lucky. I have great faith that I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.

I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that’s a trick of my mind, but I’m springier and lighter.