My mother told me when I was a toddler and in the crib that they would have music playing, and the thing when I lit up was boogie-woogie or something out of the Louie Jordan period of sometimes big bands, and then all kinds of things.
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.
