I was happy to be in England, because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I.
Gordon LightfootWill you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
Gordon LightfootI 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.
Gordon LightfootSome 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.
Gordon Lightfoot