I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.
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After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean?
They say the music you listen to in your formative years stays with you and leaves an impression for the rest of your life. For me, the things that I fell in love with happened in the '70s, when artists were nurtured by record companies and it wasn't about singles.
In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.
It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.
There are definitely people who are stuck in the '60s and there are definitely people who think I am and it's just not true. I was performing for a long time before the '60s and I'll be doing exciting interesting things for along time to come.
In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.
When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.
That's the great thing about music. You can find some '60s pop record and feel completely invigorated by it, even though it's so old.
The Seventies were just an interesting time for us because we were building the brand of the name but also varying the style of the music on each of the albums we did. Very creative time of us.
Music was such an important part of everyone's life in the '60s and '70s, but everywhere you played, the music was dreadful.
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