I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.

Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves.

My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.

I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.

The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.

With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

Machines can't lie, " I said, lying through my circuits.

The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God.

Protecting our second amendment will make America great again.

I spent a week living as a man. Which was actually, I'm sorry to say, embarrassingly easy for me to do.

People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he's like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy.

Any time I write a new song, I am jazzed about it for like 24 hours and then I am over it and want to write another one.

Loving and energizing others is the best possible thing we can do for ourselves.

I don’t ever unwind. My work is my peace. If I’m not working I’m not at peace.

I am the luckiest guy in the world. All my dreams came true. I was in a wonderful business, and I met great people all over the world.