I worked at first in a music store, and soon enough found myself hanging out with people like Patti Smith and Tom Verlaine [singer from 70s punk-band Television].

We are hoping to make people aware of environmental issues while also being entertained outdoors with music, dance and other festivities.

I think there's a notion in our society, and it may be valid, that people aren't as funny when they get older. It's a stigma still attached to the rebelliousness of youth.

My brothers and sisters and I spoke in a language called Egg Latin. In the early '50s in Canada, this became a fad way of talking among certain people. It's based on the concept that in every syllable before the vowel and after the preceding constant you insert the word 'egg.' So, my name Phil would be 'Pegghil.'

[The potential for music phones] is similar to camera phones. People didn't think they needed a camera phone, but once they saw it, they liked it. Music in the phone is the wave of the future, but it will start slowly.

I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.