If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.
You couldn't get me to go travel around and sit in a hotel room again. I have no interest in doing that. So everybody's happy. I am, at 74. Some people like doing it, but I never was much for that, anyway. It's a lot of work. So the only thing I miss about all of it is the camaraderie of the tour, but that doesn't offset the rest of it.
My mother and my father have always supported me. Now in their eighties, they actually clamor onto the tour bus with me once or twice a year so they can watch the performances and hear the crowds. Traveling with eighty-something-year-olds on a tour bus... there has to be some sort of reality show in that.
It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.
There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.
I don't have much interest in being on a senior tour. I don't think I retired so that I could be on tour.
Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it.
Being the son of a father who works so hard, I always wanted to be able take a lot of load off of my dad so he can just relax.
Touring is hard on the body.
I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.