'If You Could Read My Mind' was written during the collapse of my marriage. It's a great song. No one has any gripes about it. I wondered what my wife and daughter might think. My daughter is the one who got me to correct 'The feelings that you lacked' to 'The feelings that we lacked'.

Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.

I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.

Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.

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

A lot of people influenced me as I was learning but probably Bing Crosby was the most influential, because I would hear his Christmas albums, which my parents played a lot.

All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.