Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.

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

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

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.

My daughter Meredith Moon from my second wife has a band that does Appalachian music, with five-strong banjo, clawhammer style. I may have to direct her somewhere. Meredith was my middle name. I would have to direct her because I am always directing something. She's in the musician's union and she is only 21. Your kids surprise you.

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

I never really had stage nerves but I did have had trouble getting up to the right energy level. For a long time I drank. I drank up until 1982 and then I gave up alcohol.