Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Every man prays in his own language.

There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!

I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King's son.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

San Francisco is one of the great cultural plateaus of the world - one of the really urbane communities in the United States - one of the truly cosmopolitan places and for many, many years, it always has had a warm welcome for human beings from all over the world