The technology is good and it's bad. You know what you're dealing with out there musically, but my head stops at this electronic stuff. I don't quite know what I'm dealing with out there yet.

There were times, I'm sure you knew, when I bit off more than I could chew. But through it all, when there was doubt, I ate it up and spit it out.

Once you realize that you're in something that you've always wanted and you don't want to lose it, you behave differently. And that means the integrity, the professionalism, and knowing what's right from wrong and still making choices that you probably wouldn't have made.

I respect Jay-Z. I like him.

My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.

The thing is to be able to outlast the trends.