My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the...

I bought an island in 1987. It’s in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and went to the real estate office and bought it. It’s the best $65,000...

I think I’m a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.

When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades.

Greetings and death to our enemies.

I had a slight touch of Tourette’s, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.

I don’t need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I’m happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I’m happy my day is done. It’s over.

I’ve always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

I said, ‘You’re from Chicago, home of the blues. Here’s a nice blues record from a local band,’