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.

Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.

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

I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.

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.

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.