“I had promised myself when I first got started that if I got to the point my life where I started feeling ‘Gee, I’d rather be at home than at work’, and that started happening more often than not, that it would be time to leave.”

I’d wake up some days and go “Oh, I don’t even know if I want to go face this anymore”. I would, I would go do it, I’m a dutiful kind of person and not afraid of work.

Now that I’m afraid was institutionalized, and the great thing about the Canadian content regulations is that it broke that open.

I remained a fan. But what happens when you’re so involved is you start spending all your time based on the music that you’re involved with, you just don’t have as much time.

It’s amazing how much of that music I still listen to actually. I was such a fan of music, even after I got started professionally

And then all of a sudden that starts disappearing from the book, and just about everything I’m talking about from that point on are the records that I’m totally involved in.

I took that opinion to the wall, often in public, often had to… I often had to fight in public with the very same people who I was trying to convince to play my records!

I noticed when I was writing the book that I would tend to mention ‘outside’ songs right through to about the middle of the 70’s.

I couldn’t believe it the first time I heard one of my records on the radio, and I STILL love hearing anything I’m involved with on radio, and some of my best friends were from radio. But we were on different sides of that argument, there’s no question about that.

I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].

He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.

I guess my feeling is that if you’re going to make a joke, that’s fine, but you should also sort of stand behind it, you know? A joke should be more than a joke, it should be a point that you’re trying to make.

I’m still very grateful to digital cameras in general, but I didn’t have this feeling with the RED one.

Feelings don’t have to make sense to be valid.

Feelings don’t have to make sense to be valid.

We apply law to facts. We don’t apply feelings to facts.

I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.