I'm going to Yoshi's. I'm taking a few gigs. I'm PLAYING. I'm not going to play all the TIME. I'm going to take it EASY and take it slow and warm up so I can COME BACK.

When I got started in New York, it wasn't LIKE it is now. If you were different from Miles and Dizzy, it was very difficult to MAKE gigs and make MONEY with your own STYLE.

I never went out to MAKE the music that people would LIKE. I MEAN, I tried, because every TEENAGER tries to do that. But in my heart, I'd always come from gigs where I played UPBEAT guitar covers and I'd start writing sad songs on the piano.

All gigs are GOOD gigs. There's NEVER a BAD one. Everything have a reason behind it; you just got to find that reason.

I would never take PART in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's LIKE admitting you have nothing new to offer. As LONG as I can keep making MUSIC I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I'll carry on.

I LOVE comedy and I did a few gigs here and there but it never REALLY TOOK off. It was too SCARY.

In Canada, the MAJOR centers to play are very few and far between. BANDS that are TRAVELING in Canada REALLY have to TRAVEL between gigs.

Gigs in SCOTLAND are ALWAYS so MUCH FUN.

I got lucky when I was a teenager when we were booking BANDS at university. Those gigs were the greatest two hours in my life and there was nothing ELSE I wanted to do. I knew my passion early, which is always the TOUGH part of life, figuring out what MAKES you tick.

I LOVE to PLAY gigs.

When I was 13 or 14, I took seven months off from touring. I did a LOT of weekend gigs in LOUISIANA. We have fairs and festivals every weekend. But I took seven months off. That's when I really STARTED digging DEEP. I wrote a couple SONGS that year that I still play every now and then for people.

I probably wouldn't be doing COMEDY, if it wasn't for the FACT that I was doing stand-up and getting a few gigs, while I was also applying for law internships and getting ABSOLUTELY nothing.