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.

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.

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 I was five I had violin lessons.

We don't want to push our ideas on to customers we simply want to make what they want.

It is pain that ages us, not years.

There clearly are contacts between al Qaeda and Iraq that can be documented; there clearly is testimony that some of the contacts have been important contacts and that there's a relationship here

Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.

I live on a bicycle...I live in central London, probably 90 percent of my travel is done on a bicycle. I love bicycles.

Being in Doctor Who has been so amazing. I don't think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again. I feel sad because I am going to leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end.

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

Wanna know what heaven is ? Feeling the sun shine on you... In Paris

It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.