If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?

I remember when I first rocked in it was a great big dance hall and Tommy Young was blowing trombone and Louis [Armstrong] was singing a tune and it was just Satchmo and you could hear it resounding through the dance hall and people were dancing. It was a highlight.

I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.

I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it.

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

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

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