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

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

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

My first song was Hula Hoop Song, in 1955. It was a novelty song. I had to find someway to reach out and it was with a novelty song. Now, all of my recording obligations have been taken care of. I made 14 albums for Warner Brothers. Five for United Artist before that.

I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.

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.

There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.