Jazz is like a great blues band that fell down the stairs

I can't sit and compare my trouble to Brian Wilson but I came from a blue-collar family of fishermen. Music was an escape and a way for me to dream of better things and a better place to be. Let's just say I was an insecure, scared kid.

I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of all time.

For me I look at a group like Queen or AC/DC or the Beastie Boys. There was melody within what they did. There was a certain style with what they did. I think it is coming back.

I believe [Dean Martin] is underestimated as a vocalist only because it seemed like what he was doing looked easy - but it isn't and it stands the test of time.

Sometimes being an artist means knowing when to let someone see something in you that is there that you can't hear or see.

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor.