Some years later I met Queen Elizabeth II, in our capital Ottawa at a Canada Day celebration. David Foster and I were doing the show and we both met her afterwards. She told me how much she loved the Canadian Railroad Trilogy. She looked at me and said, "oh, that song", and then said again, "that song", and that was all she said.

My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.

She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.

I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.

I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.

I remember when I first rocked in it was a great big dance hall and Tommy Young was blowing trombone and Louis [Armstrong] was singing a tune and it was just Satchmo and you could hear it resounding through the dance hall and people were dancing. It was a highlight.

You will go with me everywhere. When I'm dreaming, you still share my lonely nights.