Noah Reid

“My maternal grandmother, Emilia, was born in Lovech, Bulgaria, where she learned to speak English. In the 1930s she migrated with her family to Detroit, Michigan, and fostered a Bulgarian community in the U.S.”

“I'd be the Toronto Blue Jays bat boy if they asked me.”

“I think on my dad's side, like a lot of Canadians, there was a sign of Irish in me somewhere way back, like a few generations back. But if you're not careful and you go to Ireland and start talking about your Irish heritage nobody wants to really talk to you too much about it.”

“David Shrigley is somewhere between stand-up comedy and cave paintings. He does these brilliant esoteric, simple drawings - you might even say bad drawings. Part of it is that you feel like you could do the drawing, but you haven't done the drawing - you haven't found that moment of truth. There's something incredible about the simplicity of it.”

“That's the mark of a great writers' room - they start to look for things to give you that you can really crush.”

“Toronto's always been home to me.”

“I've been a Leafs fan all my life, and I grew up playing hockey.”

“Music kept my mind active and engaged and helped to keep the more unpleasant things out of my mind when things weren't going the way I had hoped.”

“I think if you're a good actor you can play in all mediums and be able to figure out what tone is appropriate for what piece you are doing.”

“I have been super lucky in the first year of my son's life to get to be around him basically every day.”

“I think I'm probably more of a saver.”

“I felt a connection to the traditional music in all the pubs in Dublin that we stopped into.”

“I never anticipated that people would be listening to my songs and getting something out of them.”

“My parents bought this vacant piece of land overlooking Lake Huron in southwestern Ontario the year I was born, and it became our family cottage. That was in 1987, and over the next two decades, they spent countless hours designing and building the strangest building in Huron County.”

“Personally, I love to switch gears creatively, spending time on stage, on set, and in the studio, and continuing to chip away at notions of what it is to be alive and why it's important to be here.”

“As a music man, the musical tradition in Ireland is incredible; I could listen to it for hours.”

“It's so hard to keep anything in our heads for very long and we're easily distracted, so I like projects that allow for us to sit in some kind of reflection of this world that we're inhabiting.”

“I started writing songs as character explorations.”

“It's taken me a while to get to the level that I've always wanted to play at. I think I thought about it as things I wanted to achieve in my life and setting goals, and when that stuff started to not happen or not exactly happen in the way that I had drawn it up, that felt really disappointing.”

“Honesty' is the moment when things just seem to click and you feel a kind of energy you didn't think existed, and all you want to do is give that person all of your time. Suddenly things feel possible again, you know you belong somewhere and with someone.”