Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it. |
Do you know a magazine called the National Enquirer? In the current issue, somebody drew it to my attention, there's a picture of me, like a very young picture of me, and there's a picture of Eric Clapton now and a picture of me then, and it says this is how Eric Clapton has aged. |
I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton. |
I'm not going with some big time producer who takes over completely and I'm just a sideman. I wouldn't fancy that really. |
Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes. / Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentment. |
So I do think of myself in that way as hopefully someone who will go on as long as there's an audience and as long as I can without striving to have huge hit records because I think in a way if I'd had hit singles or something like that years ago it would have been difficult for me to carry on the way I have. |
Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested. |
Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love. |
Well, I can tell you the first record I ever stole - I wasn't so well off in those days. |
Well, it's a very mundane answer I'm afraid, nothing to do with Eric Clapton or born again religions or anything like that. |
What we feel is that it's so special, and also so emotionally draining that it's not something we could do every day. We will play more, but where and when I'm not at liberty to say. |