The First Cut Is the Deepest

[laughs] And, and in some way, in some ways, that, that, that sounds like that might've been the, the only time when you had, um, sort of proper, um, creative management.

I can't, uh, ignore The First Cut Is the Deepest, and I, I'm, I'm sure you've been asked about it many times.

But I, I wonder, when you first heard it, y- you've said that it felt as though Cat Stevens had written your own life.

So nearly 60 years after recording it, what, what does that song mean now when you sing it? Di- did it map out the life to come?

It means everything.

Just when you mention First Cut, you see me put my hands over my heart, right? Because I've sung that song thousands of times, and every time I sing it, it's, that's my song.

That's my story.

You know, Rod and Sheryl Crow, they might have did it later years and made all the money and everything, but that's my song.