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In me soul, I'm gentle.
Love lift us up where we belong.
Ive been touring now since about 68.
I used to slap my hip to keep a beat.
I've been touring now since about '68.
I was in Germany when the wall came down.
I could never deny myself bein' an artist.
Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.
Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.
Over the years, Ive worked with just about everybody.
I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.
Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around.
When I look back, I didn't take care of myself at all.
It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover.
In the end, I don't think you can find soul. Soul finds you.
For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving.
If you're going to have a cabin fever, have a big cabin, you know.
Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move.
I still like the stuff from the old days: Marvin Gaye, Donnie Hathaway.
God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?
I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.
I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter.
Making music, if youre a real musician, you carry on, regardless in this world.
Making music, if you're a real musician, you carry on regardless in this world.
I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.
You're everything I hope for. You're everything I need. You are so beautiful to me.
It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.
Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.
The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.
Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s.
Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. Its somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.
My strongest audiences are in Germany and France - they stuck with me through my dark days in the '70s.
I always encourage my promoter to see if we can go someplace new. And he'll go, 'OK, how about Armenia?'
Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.
I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.
I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert.
Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.
I like to use effects, but a lot of the time I just can't deal with these tracks with all these artificial sounds.
I have one message for young musicians around the world. Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.
I have one message for young musicians around the world: Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.
'You Are So Beautiful,' I think, is probably the, you know, the strongest tune I ever did in just the simplicity in it.
I never picked up a guitar as a kid, partly because my dad didn't want the noise in our little back-to-back in Sheffield.
I'm getting older; you realise you are on the countdown of what you are doing, so performing means more than it ever did to me.
I think the only thing I would've ever been any good at was probably being a pub landlord. I've thought of that a couple of times.
People have said I played some pretty amazing gigs in the seventies, but in all honesty, I probably played one good show in three.
A lot of times when you're young and carefree, you don't realize, when you tip over the edge, how difficult it is to climb back in.
Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?
I've been touring now since about '68. I was in Germany when the wall came down. Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.
Rock and roll came into my life when I was about 12, 13, when Little Richard and Chuck Berry had just started hitting the shores of England.
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.