Some years later I met Queen Elizabeth II, in our capital Ottawa at a Canada Day celebration. David Foster and I were doing the show and we both met her afterwards. She told me how much she loved the Canadian Railroad Trilogy. She looked at me and said, "oh, that song", and then said again, "that song", and that was all she said.

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.

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

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

If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.

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.