There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.
Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move.
When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands, now I couldn't even name half the new groups.
Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.
Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.
We have a cafe up here where we live, we had it open for 3 years, and my wife was running it. But I sank so much money into it... we gave it a shot.
Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.
Then I got hung up on Ray Charles very heavily; I loved Ray's music and still do.
The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.
Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda... my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good reason why they are there; people really like them.
Over the years, I've worked with just about everybody.
Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.
Making music, if you're a real musician, you carry on, regardless in this world.
Last year I toured a bit of America. I was on the road for 7 months, 'cause I hadn't toured the states in a long time.
It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover.
It's interesting, as I said on the last tour in America, the audience actually came out, they had to have been the kind of fans who listened to my music via their parents, you know what I mean?
It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.
I've been touring now since about '68.
I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.
I was in Germany when the wall came down.
I thought it would be good to keep Europe alone for a bit, so it's coming up to almost three years since I have played over there.