Gordon Lightfoot Quotes

Diana Ross saw me on Merv Griffin and hired me to be her opening act.

I was 16-years-old when I appeared on 'American Idol,' and the show was my boot camp. It was a crazy, stressful at times, experience.

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

I'm about to start working with a singer I met on my last trip: she'll get international exposure, and I'll have a song out in that market sung in Cantonese.

I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.

I got a phone call from Fearne Cotton. It was amazing! I literally couldn't believe it. It was so cool. It was the night before I was going on her show to sing on the 'Live Lounge.' She was so lovely.

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.

I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there's something about, I don't know there's something very special when you've signed an artist and that first record comes in and it's a good record. It is an indescribable feeling.

I'm English, and 'Doctor Who' was this thing that I've been watching since I was three.

I met Taylor Lautner and Jonah Hill at the 'Today Show.' That was pretty cool.

I did loads of sessions with Andrew Oldham.

I've done all of them except for Oprah. My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show.

I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to be on TV?' Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a 'Ready, Set, Cook' with Emeril Lagasse, I believe.

My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.

There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies.

I was a huge 'Friends' fan. I had a very small part. I played a real-estate agent in the very last season.

I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.

Bruce Forsyth is my hero, and the thought that I'd be in a TV show with him was incredible.

I never dreamed that they would ask me to do a TV show. I'm the most surprised person of all.

The day after 'X-Factor' ended, I was in the studio with Will.I.Am.

I have always been a big fan of the BBC program 'Luther' with Idris Elba.

The first time I ever actually had a line was on 'A Different World', my best friend Cree Summer's show. I was in L.A. visiting her, and she said, 'Hey, there's a walk-on part, why don't you audition for it?'

It's always been my favourite show and I am on a mission to get on 'Doctor Who.'

I actually reached out to my agent about appearing on 'The Good Wife.' The main character of the show went to Georgetown and that's where I played my college ball so there's a small connection.

I thought it was a prank. There is no way six different major labels trying to reach out to me. But it was actually happening.