“It’s really referring to the outsider. I think when you’re a kid, you go to school, you find your peer group, you find your social group very quickly. And it becomes evident what kind of path is going to be laid out for you. I went to like 12 schools when I was a kid growing up, so I always found myself on the outside of the group. The typical definition is like the jocks versus the nerds – that’s the classical boundary. But it’s a little bit more complex than that. I immigrated to Canada when I was a kid, so I had quite an experience in school being an immigrant. They weren’t really concerned about the color of my skin, my ethnicity, it was more about the fact that I was an immigrant. I was just thrown in with everybody else. I had one friend from Turkey, Ankara. I had another friend form Kingston, Jamaica – Leroy. There were native kids I used to hang out with, Iroquois kids, these two brothers. We used to hang out together, and that was my peer group. So it’s about being the eternal outsider. I know where that place is.”Ian Astbury (169)