My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.

There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.

My daughter Meredith Moon from my second wife has a band that does Appalachian music, with five-strong banjo, clawhammer style. I may have to direct her somewhere. Meredith was my middle name. I would have to direct her because I am always directing something. She's in the musician's union and she is only 21. Your kids surprise you.

The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone.

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.

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

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