Mary Margaret O'Hara on Q TV

[@Steve-up5zn]

She is not weird. She is beautiful and unique and speaks like most of us think. She just doesn't put it through the bullshit filter like we all have to do so the world can get us. If we were all like Mary the world would be an amazing place.

[@kennywood9911]

She is very clever ... she thinks at a lightning-fast pace, and speaks just as fast. (For example, at 4:35 the interviewer stumbles over the word "effortlessly," and she puns "effort-more-ly" in a nanosecond. The she riffs on "penchant" sounding like "pawn shop." Lots of moments like that in this interview.) I had to stop & replay so many moments to catch her humor. Her train of thought moves so fast, that it's sometimes hard to catch a ride. I WISH I could think like she speaks!

[@AnneAndersonFoxiepaws]

Absolutely. I do that, maybe not as interesting but I feel for her when she says she needs to put a plug in it. I feel like that and now I have anxiety which makes it worse. But, looking at her and listening to her it doesn't seem like anything that I would want her to stop. I think she is fascinating and wonderful. Truly original and her voice is like an angel. Love her and only actually found her in September songs and had, HAD to hear more!

[@davidlevy4291]

I agree with everything toy say except that she is "not weird". She totally is and feels confident and free enough to be that!

[@johnwest194]

thank you - well said

[@NormAppleton]

She's magic but she is an odd one. Which makes her great.

[@37valpal]

My God I don't feel out of place. Mary Margaret is awesome. I listened to her words and I watched her . I feel that she is so real . Not like a lot of the musicians in this day. I'd love to meet her one day. She is a real person. I would love to meet her and talk to her. She reminds me of my mom. Down to earth and living on this earth for real. God loves you Mary Margaret. and so do I. And a lot of other people as well.

[@letsif]

Mary is constitutionally incapable of faking it. Great artist. Wish there was more.

[@brinsonopinion]

My God her speech patterns and humor, there is no mistaking that she & Catherine are sisters!!!!

[@vickysweany6044]

Beautiful just beautiful. To be so free with a voice that even the wind stops and bows .

[@wl5609]

I just saw her perform live tonight in Vancouver. One of the best shows I've ever seen! Miss America is an exceptional collection of songs.. 😊

[@budclausen]

When she talks about "improvising inside the structure" (10:06 - 12:42) : "letting it happen as much as you make it happen - and sometimes more than you make it happen": I love how she is able to express these things that are almost impossible to put into words, which is why, I think she is one of the most accomplished singers Canada has produced. I often try to improvise unusual runs when I jam with other musicians - it's risky, but when it works, it is just wonderful. When it doesn't, well...

[@Quboingie]

Very moving interview. She's a beautiful soul! I just want to give her a hug and feel the energy of that moment. :-) Peace with you, Mary Margaret!

[@karenobrien7058]

She is freakin' hilarious--just by being completely herself! No filters! I love her!

[@seansimington6145]

What a fascinating interview. A real talent.

[@frasergord]

A fascinating insight into the mind of this wonderful & unique artist. I think it helps me to understand why we only have the benefit of one extraordinary album from her ... although I have looked & longed, for the last 20 years, for another one!

[@orbyroy]

she's radiant!! love her thought patterns!! and of course every track on MA... every bar of if in fact...

[@4minutewarning]

incredibly quick minded is our mary margaret. thoughts ping pong in and out of her mind at such a rate. it all makes sense though. so she communicates in an unconventional fashion. she's not nuts, just extremely gifted. which shows through of course in her singing style too. compelling to watch and listen to.

[@letsif]

I desperately looked forward to more brilliant albums by Margaret, to no avail. Listening to her talk is like watching her perform, fractured and a bit disconnected, but strangely interesting. At least she had produced one masterpiece. Great artist.

[@DeniseLaFranceCDNpainter]

Eccentric,person, an original and she has a pretty cool + ethereal voice; sounds , other-worldy, and actually a very intelligent and sweet lady.

[@Groundhogmusic]

Watched the whole thing. Best I've seen in a long long time. Hats off to both of you.

[@FeedYourCity]

Happy New Year Mary Margret! (et al O'Hara's present, Michael, Markus, Laurie, Steve, Rusty, Darlene, etc) Was wonderful to sing songs, juggle and clown around with you and your family. Thank you for being so open and loving and inspiring. Looking forward to the Martian Awareness Ball. Love to you and yours. You've got a couple of new low fans in us. Lots of Love, its open season!

[@mattstephenson8450]

I love the sisters ❤

[@ishudder]

Miss America. Such a favourite album. You must make some more Mary! You can do it! What a talker - sings like that too…

[@NormAppleton]

Been over 30 years

[@ithinkyourewonderful]

Amazing - she's so honest and awkward that it's almost painful to watch, but it's such a far cry from the manufactured artists we see today! Whole interview was worth it for her singing at the end!

[@davidfischer6523]

Her thoughts about/experience with Joyce's "Ulysses" makes perfect sense. I hope she knows, feels, how dearly her fans love her. She is a GEM. Flannery put it best: “Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.” ~ Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

[@JayJay-wg5ex]

Flannery O'Connor, a genius.

[@johnnydtractive]

Picture her in a family of kids all talking like this, a houseful of O'Hara's talking like this with oneanother. It's the SCTV skit that never happened, lol. She's an incredible woman.

[@NormAppleton]

I DON'T LIKE BEETS!

[@dancewomyn1]

Really extraordinarily unique original! Wonderful to watch.

[@cazzylo]

Her speaking voice is strangely musical too with tics. Fascinating woman.

[@TheDevilgirl832]

best album of the 80's!

[@wakygee]

I REALLY wish she had more albums - I could listen to her sing for days.... (I got Miss America off Ebay - it's like Gold!)

[@Kenroadrunner]

She's insane - I love her!

[@lunkhead57]

I feel nicely connected to someone through this. Mostly in the fact that you can see when she comes off to some as worrying too much about what she's saying for fear of being offensive or getting into trouble, it's more of a deep desire to express herself properly and not be misunderstood and I feel the same way. She isn't worrying about peoples reactions, she just wants them to know who she REALLY is, and it takes effort and pure expression to communicate that.

[@alitalanore3511]

She's so A.D.D and I love her for it!!!😅❤

[@poetryinmosean]

"tHe Wishing chair" by Enid Blyton one of my favourite childhood books!!!

[@chukcanuk]

She is such a treasure.

[@innesmorrison1942]

Wow that was incredible, thank you for posting it.

[@c.s.mcleod7383]

she has another genius album in her.

[@GregWeirmusician]

She is still beautiful! Always thought she looked crazy on stage. Now I see she is very interesting, beautiful and....crazy.

[@CusterFlux]

Quirky - Adorable - Hilarious.

[@nelumvila7698]

amazing!

[@lizzabbott]

I love you, Mary Margaret!!!!!!! So fey & otherworldly! I relate! Hang in, fellow Visitor!

[@claireelkins523]

She is amazing and beautiful

[@esob902]

Fascinating woman.

[@splush-beats]

I want to give her a hug

[@rbwhill]

brilliant!

[@justin.morgan71]

Love you M2OH. *mmmmmwah* Awesome interview.

[@daveroth9168]

...somebody watches this & say they don't love her, tell em not to come to my house cause i ain't lettin em in....

[@rustyshakelford1279]

Wow, that is the most Irish name ever.

[@flankerroad7414]

She's so much fun and engaging. And durn pretty, too!!

[@AndyStochanskyMusic]

So beautiful

[@christinepierce2800]

So very sweet!

[@Uktrayf]

she's fucking mad, i love her

[@jimblack8027]

Such an interesting soul.

[@Tony-pirate]

What a woman !! What voice !!!

[@69Nixter]

I adore her!!!!

[@LunaSeaSane]

And what an excellent interviewer! Dude, that job was cut out for you.

[@WhatMikeySaid]

Not exactly....

[@dirkbogarde44]

She's completely out of her tree. Needs to bring out another album though.

[@trexpaddock]

She was great in the move "The Events Leading Up To My Death."

[@madisonharressey3981]

She’s a little confusing, fast talking, has a lot to say and I find her a little hard to follow but I love her! She seems really fun!

[@MrDoremouse]

Saint Mary Margaret O'Hara. Love the halo at 01:17 ;-) Great lady.

[@NormAppleton]

I read one book front to back, Ulysses. HAHAHAHA Finally someone is talking normal! When James Joyce is a paragon of rational you are well on your way to the edges of the known universe.

[@voraciousreader3341]

I fell in love with MM when she was in the Lemon Twins (who may have been triplets!) with the Schmenge Brothers. She couldn’t hide or disappear, and her vocals were so great. But I totally identify with the way she wants to suppress “bad stuff” in public, but it keeps popping out anyway, like Whack-A-Mole….it’s like she’s afraid that if she says negative stuff from her childhood and career experiences she has to stop and put positive spin on it so it doesn’t jinx her. I used to do that myself, but realized it was poisoning me, and I went to a therapist instead. Unacknowledged bad stuff acts like poisons in your blood and makes you inert and very vulnerable. I’m glad she gave the host a really bad time, actually!

[@billybobgrohl9139]

Does she still ride around Toronto on her peddle bike with the basket on the front? Viva La MMOH!

[@Pretzels722]

mad genius

[@frankpeter6851]

I thought after listening to 'miss america' on-and-off since it's drop, i thought i had a sense of its author. I did not. She is kind of a nerd. I like her. She seems in shock. The interviewer seems swept up like the guy in 'suzanne' who says 'gets you on her wavelength' I liked the whole thing about daniel lanois and sarah mclaughlin being bathed in their voices. Great time and place.

[@TonyShow82]

She was the voice of Dren in Splice. She sounds different when she speaks in person.

[@adolfhitler3437]

a real person - no bullshit love mary margaret ohara

[@DigiMemories4U]

What brilliant Woman, but can you ever tell how fast her brain is working and her mouth not being able to keep up. She comes off as insane but she is just scattered

[@theunrealtimemm]

Watching this causes me to understand people who say they find me hard to follow sometimes. Thing is, I CAN rationally explain my thought processes and associations, but when I do, people seem MORE disturbed. I'm aware of the existence of B, but B often seems trite or dull, so I just go to C without mentioning B. :)

[@DogAmongMen]

She overthinks everything.. It's fun to watch.

[@sittingonmysofa]

Very unique artist. Maybe she has another great record in her yet. Duet album with Rufus Wainwright?

[@tyrjilvincef9507]

I think she has something, call it a "condition" or not, where it is literally impossible for her, while verbalizing, to not also include internal thoughts in the outward verbalization even if they don't make sense to anybody else but her.

[@snoozeking7497]

I miss Jian a lot.

[@jeremyclapham394]

12:29. Did she just say 'Wank'?!? (Brit here!) I just need some clarification - as you Americans say.

[@Rustbukkit69]

+Jeremy Clapham Haha, I can see your confusion. Wanking in this context is a term generally associated with guitars. It's the act of 'noodling around' on the guitar in an unstructured or non pre-rehearsed manner. Basically, a free form improvisational guitar solo. e.g. "I walked into the music store the other day but couldn't get any help for fifteen minutes because the store clerk was over in the corner wanking away on a new Les Paul that came in."

[@AnneAndersonFoxiepaws]

@@Rustbukkit69 omg I am British too...are you sure you're not winding us up and we just Thought she said that? All my alarms are ringing!

[@Rustbukkit69]

@@AnneAndersonFoxiepaws - Canadian here. The show in the clip is also a Canadian one. I'm sure it's more of a Canadian term than American. The term would be borrowed from you but in a less offensive sense, but with the same underlying meaning. We fully understand the term and sometimes use it as you would. In this case though, it would be a more polite way of saying someone is just dicking around on their guitar. Dicking around is also a common term used here in Canada. "What were you doing last night?" "Not much, just dicking around downtown with some friends." or "Why haven't you cleaned up the living room yet? Stop dicking around and just get it done!"

[@-thirteen]

American here, I have no idea what she said.

[@LunaSeaSane]

I don't care. I like her. I get it.

[@gerdaglockenspiel]

@lunkhead57 very well described... i felt and loved too this precaution and modesty, though being french i cant find in english the sweetness of the french words i could use (it would be "pudeur")

[@theunrealtimemm]

Nice interview. Shame about That Man, to put it mildly, but good despite that.

[@theunrealtimemm]

And we shall refrain from commenting on the irony of that final song choice.

[@Nightmaregamer-y7n]

She reminds of Bill Shatner here..

[@carmanah11]

M2OH - such a ham

[@timothyj1966]

God, I miss Ghian- Screw CBC you have turned so far LEFT it's Crazy!!!

[@ioides]

she talks like she sings :-)

Well, that was almost physically painful.

[@leerylifeform]

Someone edit gomeshi out of this.

[@sidecar7714]

Why?

[@MrAndya37]

ha ha!!!

[@bladder1010]

I wonder if Ghomeshi tried to punch her in the throat? I hear he's into that sort of thing.

[@FOXLIES]

Jian Jian Jian....WTF happened?...

[@ellenthompson5796]

She's still so friggin weird.

[@TheBillswill]

methinks the lady drinks too much.

[@rapmaster]

I can see thinking that, but I don't think it's the case. This is her intrinsic eccentricity!