'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'.

Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

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

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.

Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.

Of course I knew The Band's Canadian keyboard player, the late Richard Manuel, but I didn't play that night because I was there as a guest with my record executives. People ask, "why didn't you play?" If I had known I was going to be playing then I would have been prepared for it.

I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.