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?

Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around.

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

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

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

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

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.

I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.

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.

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

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.

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