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

I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.

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.

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

I remember when I first rocked in it was a great big dance hall and Tommy Young was blowing trombone and Louis [Armstrong] was singing a tune and it was just Satchmo and you could hear it resounding through the dance hall and people were dancing. It was a highlight.

Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

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.