If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.

I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.

I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.

I'm a big believer of daylight in the studio.

It's a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because the louder you make your record in a digital process, the more dynamics are squished out of it. Nobody knows exactly what happens, but the dynamics in the performance disappear, and everything is at the same volume.

First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain.

I was thrilled to support the Teenage Cancer Trust while celebrating the music of The Who - a band that changed my life.