The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.

Do you want - do you want - do you want to dance with me baby?

I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.

He saw my complications and he mirrored me back simplified, and we laughed how our perfect world would always be denied.

When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.

My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didnt mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But its good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.

Once I got the open tunings for some reason, I began to get the harmonic sophistication that I heard that my musical fountain inside was excited by. Once I got some interesting chords to play with, my writing began to come.