Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?

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.

I try to write songs. At our concerts, we take the cream of the crop from my back catalogue and I don't know if I could write something now that would replace any of that. We don't lose any of the standards. We have lots of songs in rotation.

I worked in a plant when I was 14 for two years. I always wanted to do the summer jobs. Honest to God, I always had to be doing something.

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

It seems so lucky to just to have the right of telling you with all my might, you're beautiful tonight.

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.