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?

It’s all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.

I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don’t know if you are really getting through or not.

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.

Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It’s somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.

The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.

Over the years, I’ve worked with just about everybody.

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?

Well, over the years, I’ve developed a stable of songs of which I’m known for and never get tired of singing.

I was in Germany when the wall came down.

It’s nice to get a response from the artists that I cover.

I’ve been touring now since about ’68.

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?

God, I’m just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?

I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.

I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter.

Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.

Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move.

Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it’s a very weird place to be.

I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can’t overload people.

Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around.

For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving.

I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.

Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis… you know in the ’60s.