My goal is to appeal to as many people as I can. I'm not looking to leave country, but I do want to have more international success.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

There was a time when I was - after my very first record from Nashville, I thought I might not be one of those who actually really makes it, and I may end up back in Canada, just playing clubs. And that might - this might have just been it.

Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

You don't want to be outside during blackfly season.