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.

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.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.

You're going to be hearing a lot about one scrappy president.

I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.

We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before.

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

I answer a fan with a hearing heart first.

Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is.

Information comes through to me in 3 basic ways seen, hearing, and feeling the energy of the person that's crossed over. In which it is a symbolic type of language.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

I dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs.

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.

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

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.