I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it.

I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it.

After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life.

Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville.

The pressures, I don't really like to think about the pressures, I like to solve them, you know what I mean. I could sit here and complain about pressures but nobody wants to hear about pressures.

I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.

He was a 'how' thinker, not an 'if' thinker.