You don’t have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

You are still lucky – you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music – but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It’s risky to bounce around and change your type of 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.

To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you’re set. If you don’t want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.

We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves.

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.

When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

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

You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.

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.