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.