I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing.

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along, that’s the only way you can create music. If you don’t feel any emotions, like it’s not going to happen.

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.

You never know what you find once you really get going.

Everything from now on will be done online - physical music media like the CD are dead in the water.

The mind is weak, and it must be mastered, controlled. The body, it knows no master save for instinct and, unfortunately, it is built for terminal suffering.

Live your Life as you want Life to be Lived

I am asked – and I’m speaking to young Canada now – are there rewards in public life? There are – not monetary but there is a tremendous satisfaction in being able to say I tried, I stood.

Disclosure without therapy is the second rape of the child.

If anybody has a bad day, they'll just come to my room because they know I'll bring out the positive in everything, or I'll make them laugh, or I'll be just crazy.

Experience alone can decide on truth.

Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot discovered America by looking for cod.

Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.

You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.

To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free.