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I'm lucky that I enjoy touring as much as I do. I'm not going to make a living just making records.

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

Some people get on the whole touring circuit for years and years and years on one record. What interests me is sitting down at a piano, writing songs, getting into a studio and exploring new sounds to come up with something I'm really proud of.

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

I'm just not going to tour. One point I want to get across to everybody is that I'm still going to make records and I may still do some events. It's not the last time I'm onstage. It's been a part of my life for too long to quit everything. I have done it since the '80s, and I think it's time now to maybe see if I can live without that part.

I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.

There's other things I'd like to do. I probably won't tour for a very, very long time. It's something that you feel inside and that's the way I've been looking at everything.

I have a great time touring.

It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus.