For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar. My favorite thing is when cartoon fans show up to my live gigs! They are always the most kick-butt audience members 'cause they're not trying to act all cool like a lot of the music fans do! It's refreshing!!

I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.

I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.

Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarged and enhanced the quality and length of human life, we must not lose sight as to what we are trying to accomplish.

That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.

The one thing that scares me the most is failing. It scares me that one day I won't be at this level. But while I'm here and while I'm having success early, I'm trying to do everything to stay on this level.

Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62.

In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

I may not be perfect, but I'm trying.