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I Enjoy Doing Different Kinds Of Things. I Just Enjoy Being Not Tied Too Much. I Feel That I'm Tied To Myself As A Kind Of Traditional Musician And A Singer, And The History That I Have Ties Me Down.

I Suppose You Do Think About The Time That's Allotted To You More Than When You Were Younger. The Mortality Thing Obviously Has A Stronger Pull For You. It's An Imminent Truth; It's Not Necessarily A Bad Thing. You Realize - Much Earlier Than My Age Now - That You Won't Be Able To Play For England's Football Team, Just To Take A Really Crass Example. So You Can't Have That Life Again. Unless You Believe In Reincarnation Or Whatever. Reincarnation? That's A Whole Other Question. I Find People Who Talk About That Sort Of Thing In Interviews Idiotic. And I Don't Want To Go Down With Them.

I Used To Play Saturday Night Shows With Different Little Groups. If I Could Get A Show, I Would Do It. I Used To Do Mad Things - I Used To Go And Do These Shows And Go On My Knees And Roll On The Ground - When I Was 15,16 Years Old. And My Parents Were Extremely Disapproving Of It All. Because It Was Just Not Done. This Was For Very Low-class People, Remember. Rock & Roll Singers Weren't Educated People

Rock Has To Absorb Other Rhythmic Forms, Because The Underlying Rhythm Of Music Changes With Fashion, And People Like To Move Differently, And The Underlying Rhythms Have To Be The Ones That People Want To Dance To.

I Like To Have A Peek, See What The Audience Is Doing During The Opening Act, Because It Gives You A Clue And Gives You A Good Feeling Of Where You Are - The Air Can Be Different In Different Places.