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

My daughter Meredith Moon from my second wife has a band that does Appalachian music, with five-strong banjo, clawhammer style. I may have to direct her somewhere. Meredith was my middle name. I would have to direct her because I am always directing something. She's in the musician's union and she is only 21. Your kids surprise you.

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

I would never have ever dreamed that I would get married again and then all of a sudden you meet somebody. That's the thing about life. It can be so unexpected.

Don Quixote was a song for a 1969 Michael Douglas movie called Hail Hero! I wrote the title song for the film and they also used the Don Quixote one I had submitted.

I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.

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