I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

You can't chop down a symmetry

I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry. That's where we're heading. And it'll cut out a lot of music if people ever expected to make money.

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

I'd like to see the Second Coming in every one of us. That we all be Jesus. That we all embody that consciousness.

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog!