Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us.

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

If God's got a favorite songwriter, I think it's John Prine.

Just remember that William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime. Ya gotta keep creating.

His soul was bigger than a body's ought to be.

Bad love is better than no love at all, at least you know you're alive.

You're the only one that you are screwin', when you put down what you don't understand.