Joe Cocker

God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?

I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.

Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.

I don't like to get in front of people.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.