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've been touring now since about '68.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

I was in Germany when the wall came down.

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.

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

Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around.

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?

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

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

I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.

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.

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

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.

I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert.

In the end, I don't think you can find soul. Soul finds you.

Making music, if you're a real musician, you carry on regardless in this world.

Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people its a very weird place to be.

A lot of times when youre young and carefree you dont realize when you tip over the edge how difficult it is to climb back in.

You're everything I hope for. You're everything I need. You are so beautiful to me.

I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability.

George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman.

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.

Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.

Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!

The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom.

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

It's frustrating not to have more control over your material.

This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control.

I'm very excited to see where the characters and their relationships go. But in the end, it really boils down to the people who have more power than me, who control the money.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.

My definition of success is control.