Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got into music. That Louis Jordan changed everything and made him want to become a musician.
I do not have yearnings to get back on a bus. If it means getting on a bus, I don't want to do it.
Some people love some music, and they hear it a year later and they think, 'What was I thinking?'
I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life.
For years after 'The Last Waltz,' I got all kinds of silly movie offers - or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling... lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend.
After the 'Last Waltz' concert, it just seemed very healthy to me to put making a record as far out of my mind as I possibly could.