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

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.

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

When I was five I had violin lessons.

The brain is the hardware, and the mind is the software, with the totality always in action, hardware plus software.

If you can't stop thinking of it, don't stop working for it.

The Following and Hannibal are really well made, but the tone is very consistently dark.

I believe we are stronger together and we will go forward together.

He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last.

In this business, if you don't have the capacity to step back and have some sort of relativity about things, you're screwed.

But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

There's many a man hath more hair than wit.