110 Quotes by Gordon Lightfoot

I just do the cream-of-the-crop songs in my show. We just bowl them over; they love us. It just keeps getting better.

I did a lot of canoe tripping earlier on. I was on 10 trips, and I would get the feel of the forest and the wilderness, you know, that I always knew was in my soul to begin with.

I've just been a very lucky person. I'm 76 years of age, you know. I've been very lucky.

I started writing songs in high school. And eventually, I got some songs recorded by some major artists, mostly because I was out there performing, and I was working in coffee houses and lounges, and people came to see me and hear my material.

I was happy to be in England because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I. My mother had every memento you could find on the Queen.

I have just a really strong love for people when I perform. I really do.

Every time you wanted to do something, you'd hope it would score. You'd keep trying and trying, and all of the sudden, something would come right out of left field, like 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.' No one had any idea about that one.

I have to play everything just perfectly. I can't take less of myself. I'm strong. I'm prepared.

Everybody's got so much of their own to deal with. They have no one to turn to.