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I'm dedicated to touring the rest of my life.

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

I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.

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.

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

The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.

When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag.

My career progressed slowly. Real slow at a time. The irony of it was I had the best part of my career between when I was 45 and 49 years old. That's when most people are in their twilight, waiting to get to the Champions Tour. And that's when I made most of my hay.