And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history.
Believe me when I tell you if you're still doing this in ten years from now it won't be one of those acts you'll be doing this with. It just won't!
I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world.
I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been.
If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work.
It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.
Many companies today don't have to spend a lot of money on development. Or they have to spend money on trying to build an artist.
Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave.
The record industry is a world within itself.
Unfortunately, I'm not one of those people who take pictures, you know, carry a camera. Because if I did I'd have stack's and stack's and stack's of different act's. I got a lot here - I know what I done.
Unless you're a musical team. If you're a musical team then that structurally works. But if you're two individuals it can be tricky.
Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition.
Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended.
You can only be lucky if you have a place to record.
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