I was happy to be in England, because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I.

Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.

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

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

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.

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.