Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.

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.

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

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".

Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.

Some years later I met Queen Elizabeth II, in our capital Ottawa at a Canada Day celebration. David Foster and I were doing the show and we both met her afterwards. She told me how much she loved the Canadian Railroad Trilogy. She looked at me and said, "oh, that song", and then said again, "that song", and that was all she said.

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