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{{quote|There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is 'idiot'.
|'''[[S. M. Stirling]]'''}}
{{quote|I remember quite specifically that we had been touring the States on the strength of "These Eyes" and "Laughing" and "Undone". I don't even think "No Time" was out yet. And I noticed when we were in the States, the girls seemed to grow up faster. They started wearing more makeup and dressing more sensuously at a younger age. And then when I got back to Canada, it seemed that the girls weren't trying so hard to grow up so fast.
So what I was thinking was "Canadian woman, I prefer you." But what came out of my mouth was "American woman, stay away from me."
I wasn't thinking politically. I wasn't thinking about the Vietnam War — which at that time was at a particularly bad point of escalation, so people read a lot of their own meanings into those words. And what came out could have been construed as anti-American.
One way or the other, it caught the attention of the public and it got much bigger. Believe me, we didn't see that coming.
|Burton Cummings (frontman of [[The Guess Who]]), talking about "American Woman", ''[q]]'', May 8, 2020}}
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