We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves.

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.

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 I was five I had violin lessons.

I wish I could find MY books listed on GOODREADS - DODGING JOE, THE WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T EXPLAIN, THE BITTER GRAPES - ll available through Amazon and Createspace -

If you want to get the best out of people, ask them for help rather than assigning them work.

[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.

An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.

So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries, one here and one in Europe, national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.

I was a bleeding-heart liberal, until I got a job.

You don't know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don't have it.

Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.

I gotta learn to rap.

The more rules you have about how people have to be, how life has to be for you to be happy, the less happy you’re going to be.