Like most Canadians at this time of year, Sam Roberts wonders why he doesn't call a tropical seaside resort home.

"The first couple weeks of winter don't hurt that much," says the Montreal-based singer.

"It's the end of February when it feels like winter is dragging on and you've been cooped up in the same space for weeks. Seeing the same faces over and over. You feel like you're going to start cannibalizing each other."

Still, Roberts admits he has an emotional and psychological connection to the Canadian weather.

"Nobody in Arizona feels the same joy that we feel in spring and summer," he explains.

"Nobody in St. Lucia can really understand how great that first day of 22-degree weather feels when it rolls around. On the other side, they'll never get that feeling of, not despair, but you've resolved yourself to another winter by late October."

Roberts, whose band plays Monday night at the Jubilee Auditorium, is also staying put now he is a father. In 2007, the rocker and his long-time partner welcomed a baby girl, which he says has curbed his nomadic nature.

"The idea of home has become very, very important to me," he says.

"I welcome any opportunity to spend there. That's not just for myself but for my band mates as well.

"For anyone who plays in a band, home becomes the one thing that keeps you firmly attached to this world."

Roberts' family has joined him on the road several times, but when asked if he would like to see his daughter follow in his footsteps, he answers with an emphatic, "I hope not."

"I don't want her to be out on the road all the time," he says. "As much as people might think of it as an ideal, glamourous job -- that separation from home and from the people that mean the most to you on a daily basis is hard .... There's only certain people who can handle that as a way of life."

Roberts is obviously one of them since he's on another tour supporting his latest release, Love At the End of the World.

The album is full of the catchy riffs, sweet harmonies and brilliant melodies that made his first two major label releases -- We Were Born In A Flame and Chemical City -- such hits.

The first single, Them Kids, is a galvanic pop-rock number inspired by Roberts' conversations with fellow-musicians about the state of popular music and the appallingly bad musical tastes of some teenagers.

"As soon as I started writing ... I thought that maybe it's not just about them, maybe it's about me, too," says Roberts.

"Maybe it's about my own fear and my own paranoia that one day they're going to turn their back on me. That's when a song turns around and bites you in the ass."

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