Buffett dismisses the notion of retiring any time soon in an interview with United Press International “Jimmy Buffett relishes still being here”
“I’m still out there — where would I go? Retirement doesn’t look so interesting to me these days,” says Buffett, 61, who kicks off his Year of Still Here tour Thursday in Atlanta. [correction the tour actually started in Houston on April 21st]
“That’s kind of an old way of thinking, retiring at 60. Come on — I still think I’m 40!” he said.
Buffett is also working on new songs but says he isn’t sure when he’ll record a follow-up to 2006’s “Take the Weather With You.