The Kennedy Center Honoree admits that he was initially skeptical. “I was a Vegas snob forever, for sure,” he says. “Back in the day, Vegas definitely had a very specific connotation for us, and it was something [that folk and pop artists] in the late ’60s and early ’70s, were distancing ourselves from.” But time and image and headliners change. “For one thing, it’s now a town of two million people. It’s not just the strip; there’s an actual population there, and it’s just an excellent place to put on a show.”