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.

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

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

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.

I never really had stage nerves but I did have had trouble getting up to the right energy level. For a long time I drank. I drank up until 1982 and then I gave up alcohol.

I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.

Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.