When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

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.

With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.

Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

When I was five I had violin lessons.