I have one message for young musicians around the world. Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.

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

For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving.

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

I've been touring now since about '68. I was in Germany when the wall came down. Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.

I have one message for young musicians around the world. Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.

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?