You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.

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

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

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.

I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC. So I found myself in front of a British television show, which was a nice surprise.

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

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