My mother passed at the end of the Circus tour. After that I really needed to take some time and just chill out and get my head together.

I went to Paris in 1989 when the Americans didn't quite know what to do with me at first. Now, all those years later, it's kind of the same story. Not the same scenario, but kind of the same story.

I'm really happy about American Woman, it brought the Guess Who back. They started gigging again and got their song out on commercials.

I don't like to approach people that much. There's been times when I wanted to say something to somebody, in a quick moment, but didn't. Then you think, man, who knows?

I wanted to make something that sounded very pure, organic, and personal. I wanted to make music that was timeless.

I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.