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You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.

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It's hard for me... If I don't have a project going, I don't feel like I'm connected to anything. I don't even think it's that healthy for me. I like to get out of bed and have a purpose.

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When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

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I think if I'd quit years ago, I'd never have known what I was capable of doing.

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There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.

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I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.

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When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering.

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I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and play this and get the song over, I don't take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar.

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When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know. So you've got to know your audience. It's kind of something that is a blessing and a curse in a way. You're obligated to play some of that stuff that people know, but I don't think that's all you have to do.

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When I met Elvis, we didn't really have a conversation. I was introduced by my uncle, and he sort of grunted my way. What stays with me is the whole scene. I had never seen a real mob scene before. I was really young and impressionable. Elvis really did look - he looked sort of not real, as if he were glowing.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: October 2nd, 1950

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