"In some cases the songs are autobiographical; some events and traumas that have to get handled, one way or another, go into the tunes. And it’s easier and cheaper than going to a shrink. 'If You Could Read My Mind' was written about the events that happened when I was getting divorced from my first wife. I’d just moved to the country, to a little farm, and signed with a new label, and the marriage was breaking up. I drank quite a bit too, until 1982, when I gave it up." -- Gordon Lightfoot, 2012.
Mr. Lightfoot has a new album, Solo, out today.
