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

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.

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.

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.

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves.

My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.

I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.

The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.

When I was five I had violin lessons.

In any situation, you can find strength in the Lord.

If I have enough money to eat I'm good.

I didn't get my hair styled today. I actually stuck my hand in a socket and this is the way it turned out.

The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one.

Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.

I view the United States, today, much like East Berlin. And I'm off the grid. I've tried for 20 years to warn the country about the Democrats and Republicans, and nobody's listening.

So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American." "Different kind of prison" Chip said.

Have you not noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than your harsh ones?

Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran a 3°F fever.