See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred fire, see the soldier with his gun who must be dead to be admired.

There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.

I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it.

Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

When love is true there is no truer occupation.

I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.

I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC. So I found myself in front of a British television show, which was a nice surprise.