Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

Its a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. Its a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

Yes!!! I booked a commercial!!!

As you get older, your experiences become more precious. Nothing material is important to me. It's people who are precious.

It's an important thing to remember where you came from.

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.

Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing

On singing in the swimming pool: "If I can move the water, I can move the people.

You're not a book person. And now you're not an internet person? What does that leave you?

I am so proud to be a Canadian.

The whole creative process...is putting opposites together into something that wasn't there before.

Singles are your safest songs on the records. Ones that piss fewer people off, that appeal more to the masses.

Facebook and Myspace are the U.S. audience, which is tried and true when it comes to being susceptible to ads.

Take your faith out of the lies! Free your faith, and you will see how powerful you become.

Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.

I keep plastering it until it comes around to what I want, in terms of all I know and think about painting now, as well as in terms of the initial observation.

So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and meaningful, the president would have been periodically briefed.

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.