Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.
I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.
I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.
It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.
Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.
If somebody asks me to recommend a young, good singer, I always do.