I will never forget seeing Alien when it came out in 1979. I'm not that big a fan of horror, but I remember the slow build, the claustrophobic feeling on the spacecraft, this tremendous sense of impending doom.
I've been travelling all my life.
I am happy in my own skin.
I'm not a big consumer at all. I'm very happy with enough.
I'm a strong believer in the importance of energies - ley lines, energy streams, whatever you wish to call them - within a house. They can affect your health as well as your happiness.
After university, I set out to see if I could make a career in music. It was a tough journey at first, but by the time I was 23 I'd been signed by A&M Records.
We are not politically naive.
You get pigeonholed. It's a kind of safety device for people who don't really want to look any further outside of the box, but I'm actually impregnable as far as what people say about me.
I'd been to South Africa during the Seventies, when it was definitely not kosher to go there. I felt that the best thing to do was to be a missionary and tell people what was going on in their own country because censorship was so dreadful.
Before I ever did a stage concert, I'd done hundreds of living-room concerts, which helped a lot.
I struggled for so many years.
I regularly visualise my body from head to toe, and wait for it to tell me if there's anything wrong.
I believe that music is an international language and deserves to be heard all over the world.
I always bring divining rods when I'm on tour because you can change energy streams by moving furniture around your hotel room.
I think that every songwriter would give their right arm to come up with a standard that is going to be played long after they're dead.
I have always had a long term view on records as I want them to be books and not magazines and newspapers that you discard very quickly.
I thought I would be an overnight star when I had a hit record in Brazil with my first album - but things didn't work out quite like that.
It's every songwriter's dream to come up with a standard.
Love songs are the most complex to write because everyone knows about it.
Canada has a great tradition of supporting songwriters.
