All Things Considered | Things to Come | The Pretty Things | Where the Wild Things Are | Wild Things | The Shape of Things | Linens 'n Things | Kids Say the Darndest Things | 10 Things I Hate About You | Things Fall Apart | The God of Small Things | My Favorite Things | First Things | Things the Grandchildren Should Know | Things That Make You Go Hmmm... | Things That Go Pump in the Night | Things Behind the Sun | Terrible Things | All the Things She Said | Where the Wild Things Are (film) | Where The Wild Things Are | Very Bad Things | Those Things | Things Worth Fighting For | Things We Lost in the Fire | The Way Things Work | The Way Things Go | The Shape of Things to Come | The Nature of Things | The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things |
After studying philosophy at Trent University he travelled to Toronto where he struggled to break into the film industry working for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as an assistant director on a television show called Seeing Things.
In the 1980s he had a recurring role on Seeing Things, as well as acting in the television films Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, Freddie the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner and Charlie Grant's War.
Helped by the singles "Twice As Hard", "Jealous Again", "Hard to Handle", "She Talks to Angels", and "Seeing Things", the album peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 and went five times platinum in the United States.