If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.

I was happy to be in England, because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I.

What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages] - the result of my living.

I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.

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.