
ML: I’m sure you’ve had this type of sibling rivalry question before, but do you feel like now is your time to be busting out? I think I was kind of a loser for a long time, but I think that in a family of black sheep – which everyone in my family is – I’ve finally found my tuft of grass to graze, which should back out on to the rest of the earth. MW: In the family circle I’m slightly behind everyone else and trying to catch up. ML: Considering your background, would you call yourself a winner or a loser? We were definitely the odd kids on the block but I guess in 1976 the housing market was good in Montreal and my mother decided to buy a big house, but I’m sure they wanted us out of the neighbourhood. MW: We definitely stood out like sore thumbs in Westmount. ML: Right, so that’s some pretty poshy schools. MW: Yeah, for about 3 or 4 years, then I moved to New York for a couple of years, and then I moved back and went to a girl’s school down on St Geneith St. MW: No, my brother Rufus went to Faith for a bit, but I grew up in Westmount for some of the time so I went to The Study, an all-girls school.

I went to a high school called Centenary Regional High School, which had like 17,000 kids there. ML: Oh wow, well I went to some public schools because I grew up on the south shore in Braeside.

MW: What school did you go to in Montreal? Murray Lightburn: So are you ready to jump into this?
