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

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 don't like telling people where I stand on this, although I'm surprised anybody wonders. I suppose if I say I'm pro-choice, if I make that clear, it let's the audience off the hook, then they can sort of relax. Okay, it's alright he's pro-choice then I can enjoy this.

You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race.

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.

I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.

It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.

Some people might say I need to learn how to relax.

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

I don't really make plans and I just want to be happy and continue with my business and take care of my wife and kids. I want to sit back, relax and enjoy life.

I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the tempos. I can change the mood, because I'm in charge.

We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.

I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.

To me, it's like we're already in the playoffs. Every game is important for our position. We can't relax at all.

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.

Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.