I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.

I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.

So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.

Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.

I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.

I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.

And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.