I got to sing solo in the junior choir when I was 10 or 11 and won a competition, and my sister's piano playing improved to a certain level. One time my sister and I worked together. The first song we ever sang in High School was Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett.

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.

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

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.

If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?

Getting lost in her loving is your first mistake.

Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.