“So everything became more difficult.”

“The songs of mine that I don’t want to sing live, I don’t sing them.

“Quite often that would come during ‘you’ve got the option to Call Me Al.’

Paul Simon

Paul Simon.Christopher Polk/CBS via Getty

I’d think, ‘What are you doing?

You’re like a Paul Simon cover band.

You should get off the road, go home.'”

In addition to Simon’s hearing loss, a bout of COVID-19 took a toll on him.

“Boy, have I been beaten up in these last couple of years,” he said.

“But I look good, right?”