[The lyric, "the world's a blister," is] all about getting close to that extreme, in which everything is glamourized to such an extent - from porn to sensationalizing death - we're desensitized, I think, pretty much completely desensitized.- Raine Maida, Vancouver Sun, 23 Sep. 1999

It's weird, because some songs like Blister, where Raine had a basic idea and we threw all these different parts at it and changed a lot of things and then it came back pretty similar.- Jeremy Taggart, Canadian Musician, Nov. 1999