Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.

Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.

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.

My first payback to society in life, was The Dolphin Project.

I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.

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.

You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.