As soon as anybody does one of my songs, I rejoice. This particular case of all these great singers doing my work - the implications are very rich and the temptation to think of the outcome of these masses of the mainstream injecting my work into the marketplace, it's a very sweet speculation.

Get ready for the future: it is murder.

I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.

This mental space is occupied and everything is mine.

Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.