Plus, I've always felt that, if the worst came to the worst in my career, I could always fall back to doing voices on the radio.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice.
It's always pretty amazing to hear your own voice on the radio.
Every time I turn on the radio, I must be on the wrong song or something. But, to be honest, since I went on the road back in 1970, I didn't listen to radio music because I didn't want to subconsciously steal somebody's stuff.
I've never come into anything successful before. I've always been hired by horrible radio stations with horrendous reputations and nothing to lose.
I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record.
Most people were annoyed with my voice, I think, because I'm working-class, and that doesn't sound quite right on Radio 4.
Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.
The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you're always giving interviews.
When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in - that's when I realized I had a voice.
My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.