When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.

I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the Dylan song “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall.”

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.

At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.