Paul Simon said he is done performing after his last show of his latest tour.
In an interview with The New York Times, the 74-year-old legendary singer said that he was ready to hang up his guitar and stop performing. (RELATED: Paul Simon Takes “The Boxer” A Little Too Seriously?)
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“It’s an act of courage to let go,” Simon said. “I am going to see what happens if I let go. Then I’m going to see, who am I? ”
“Or am I just this person that was defined by what I did,” he added. “And if that’s gone, if you have to make up yourself, who are you?”
Simon also talked about the problems he’s seen that go along with fame.
“Showbiz doesn’t hold any interest for me,” he said. “None. I’ve seen fame turn into absolute poison when I was a kid in the ’60s.”
“It killed Presley,” he added. “It killed Lennon. It killed Michael Jackson.”
“I’ve never known anyone to have gotten an enormous amount of fame who wasn’t, at a minimum, confused by it and had a very hard time making decisions.”
His North American tour ends Thursday night with a show in Queens, New York.