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

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.

Getting lost in her loving is your first mistake.

It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of".

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

A lot of people influenced me as I was learning but probably Bing Crosby was the most influential, because I would hear his Christmas albums, which my parents played a lot.

She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.