A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing … You come to a point where you have sung, more or less … your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living. You know, up until that point, I hadn't had a life. I'd been searching, been on the road.
On leaving the music business in 1979,in an interview with CBS News Sunday Morning (12 August 2007)
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