My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.

You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.

My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.