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?

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.

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 was in Germany when the wall came down.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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