I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.

By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.

I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.

In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.

Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.