Getting lost in her loving is your first mistake.

Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.

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.

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

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

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.

I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.