I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.

I try to write songs. At our concerts, we take the cream of the crop from my back catalogue and I don't know if I could write something now that would replace any of that. We don't lose any of the standards. We have lots of songs in rotation.

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.

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.

It seems so lucky to just to have the right of telling you with all my might, you're beautiful tonight.

Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

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