I’m a TV junkie. I’m always flipping through channels.

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That’s really where failure comes.

I mean, I don’t think I would call Claus to do an album of big band tunes. You know, just like arrangers write for the artist they have in mind; you have to keep in...

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

So, it ended up being what you have there, seven songs brand new and ten live songs which is a good mix.

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.

I’d probably be famous now if I wasn’t such a good waitress.

I can’t drink whiskey like I used to back then, that’s for sure.

Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit.

When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out.

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

I’ve been solo since 1996, so I’ve been doing it for a while now.

Very often out of adversity that’s when the best work comes.

It was probably when I met Jeff Hamilton, the drummer I’ve been working with for the last 20 years. He’s the one who brought Ray Brown to hear me sing at a restaurant in my...

You are still lucky – you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music – but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can...

The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.

All I ever thought was, ‘I’m going to do this as long as I can, and if I can’t get paid at it, I’ll be a bum doing it.’ And so, here I am.

Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities in Toronto, people like the Walsh Brothers, David Wilcox, Kim Mitchell...

I could never want to be in a band where the ultimate good job I could do is to really impersonate somebody a lot. What kind of a life is that?

As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you’ve done your job.

You don’t even have to leave your house: you do your work from your house; you can order anything you want from your house; you don’t have to leave your chair. Everything’s been designed so...

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

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.

We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don’t agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music.

Sometimes I can’t get out of the character because the story is very intense.

You don’t need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave...

There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me.

I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs...

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

I do Skid Row every night.

Do Tasmanian devils really exist?

I like to interpret ‘Call me a River’, as if I’m saying, ‘Now you’re telling me you love me after all that, and I’m telling you to shove off.’ That’s my interpretation. But I would...

The first album’s influences were James Taylor and Coco, and then they switched to Credence Clearwater Revival and Rolling Stones on the second.

It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that.

The album is a definite departure. I haven’t written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.

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.

There’s way easier ways to make money, let’s just put it that way.

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that’s all. You sang other people’s songs. That’s all there were.

Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age...

I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

That’s why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they’re just about feelings that don’t change. They are love songs, they are not specific, those kinds of feelings don’t change.

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...

It’s too easy to do your own site to not have one these days. I guess everyone has one.

You’re creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it’s their experience, not yours. I’ll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about ‘my’ broken heart.

I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.

They don’t have the edge that I need. I’m not interested in reliving 1988.

I’d always loved poetry and I’d always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn’t thought of putting the two together until around that time.

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.

I guess I watch more MTV than you do. I’m a junkie for it.