When I was a kid, I remember trying to emulate Stevie Wonder's sound, and Donny Hathaway's sound. It's just part of who I am - I'm just a soulful kind of dude.

I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.

I'm still Elliott Yamin. I'm still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va.

Inspiration is a lifestyle that must be practised continuously and is one that is never completely mastered.

The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won’t happen if you compromise away the entire process.

I cannot kill someone, he thought.

The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine?

Two is the beginning of the end.

I should like to see you try.

When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts.

I try not to look back. I'm looking forward. I'm worried more about what I'm going to do next week than I am what I did last week. There are too many things to do. Looking back is for everybody else.

The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born