CBC Radio found out about Lightfoot's reticence the hard way. The company put together a tribute recording of Canadian alternative rock bands (including Hamilton's own JUNKHOUSE), each singing their favorite Lightfoot classic. Recording for the project was just about fnished when Lightfoot, acting through his management-publishing company Early Morning Productions, exercised his right of refusal and killed the project.
"I didn't really have anything to do with that," Lightfoot protests at first. "It didn't seem like it was a very good idea. I mean, why?
"I didn't know that they were as far along with it, actually. I thought they were just talking about it."
He then offers an explanation for what can be -- and often has been perceived as -- his contradictory nature.
"You know what? I'm too humble. I'm humble to the point of feeling inferior most of the time. And I've had this treated because I suffer from depression. So I can talk to you about that, but it's a very nebulous topic."
Lightfoot says he's been fighting depression since "I came face to face with my mortality at age 10.
this is a quote from 1993.
"I didn't really have anything to do with that," Lightfoot protests at first. "It didn't seem like it was a very good idea. I mean, why?
"I didn't know that they were as far along with it, actually. I thought they were just talking about it."
He then offers an explanation for what can be -- and often has been perceived as -- his contradictory nature.
"You know what? I'm too humble. I'm humble to the point of feeling inferior most of the time. And I've had this treated because I suffer from depression. So I can talk to you about that, but it's a very nebulous topic."
Lightfoot says he's been fighting depression since "I came face to face with my mortality at age 10.
this is a quote from 1993.
