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" 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. "
Back
Edge
Realize
" Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s. "
Most
You
Back
" 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? "
Think
Rest
Living
" Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around. "
I Am
Am
Around
" For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving. "
Moving
Focus
Me
" God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know? "
God
Singing
You
" If you're going to have a cabin fever, have a big cabin, you know. "
Going
Cabin
Big
" I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter. "
Had
Gas
Pipe
" I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people. "
Always
Be Careful
Days
" I have one message for young musicians around the world: Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard. "
Believe In Yourself
Heart
Work
" 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. "
People
Control
Feeling
" I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling. "
Feeling
Songs
Rocking
" In the end, I don't think you can find soul. Soul finds you. "
End
You
Think
" I think the only thing I would've ever been any good at was probably being a pub landlord. I've thought of that a couple of times. "
Good
Only
Think
" 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? "
America
Music
Parents
" It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover. "
Cover
Response
Nice
" I've been touring now since about '68. "
About
Been
Now
" I was in Germany when the wall came down. "
Germany
Came
Down
" I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old. "
Old
Get
Ray
" Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be. "
Place
Weird
Quarter
" Over the years, I've worked with just about everybody. "
Years
Over
Just
" 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. "
Like
Good
People
" The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age. "
Place
World
Back
" Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened. "
New York
Happened
Unfortunately
" Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing. "
Over
Tired
Well
" 'You Are So Beautiful,' I think, is probably the, you know, the strongest tune I ever did in just the simplicity in it. "
Beautiful
Simplicity
Think
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