Joe Cocker Quotations

To be on the road, even if you're not that happy, is all right, as long as I'm pourin' me heart into it.

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.

Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?

Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.

The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.

I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.

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

I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter.

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