I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.
I’ve made the decision to get off the stage.
When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.
This morning my dad called me up and said, 'So, tonight's your last show, huh.' And I said, 'No, Dad, that's someone else.'
When 'The Warrior' came out, Scandal was no more.
I can stop and retire when I get to Japan. I don't care if it's one show, that's all that's left for me. I just need to wrestle in Japan once and that would be the cherry on top.
It's just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means 'for now.'
I want to go out in dramatic fashion. Win, lose, or draw, I want to have a retirement match, and a lot of guys have done it.
I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.
You can know that the final show is coming up, and prepare yourself for it mentally, but when it finally occurs, it's like a dream. You stand there feeling the love the audience has for you, and you think, 'Is this really going to end?
The 2018 tour is supposed to be a farewell tour. But you take farewell tours one at a time.
I tried in '71 to relax. I thought I gave my farewell tour.
Every show is your last show. That's my philosophy.
You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.
There's no future for New Order.
I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I'm saying this will probably be my last tour. That's truly the way I'm looking at it.
I always promised myself that I wouldn't do catwalk shows until the day I died.
Phish has run its course and that we should end it now while it's still on a high note.
I play every show like it's my last. Fortunately, that's never turned out to be the case.
Not a lot of bands get to go out on their own terms.
I was really looking forward to doing the thing that I do - I basically appear just at the beginning and at the end of the 'The Glory of the World' play - but when I got to opening night, I started to get really sad that that was the last time I was going to see the play as a spectator without actually being in it.
We're definitely hanging up the touring shoes but we'll do other things. We'll do an odd gig here and there but going out and actually touring for a month or two, we're not doing that anymore.
We were with Frank as part of his very last tour.
I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.
But James Gandolfini and Edie Falco, they did such great work, especially in the last show.
