It wasn’t the be all and end all of my life.

It’s also great to work with people I’ve known for many years.

The Rolling Stones’ recorded legacy is unfortunately similar to that of many other rock stars of the 1960s — a great burst of creativity that tapers off into a stretch (eventually decades long) of unremarkable...

I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.

My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

We courted adversity, took risks, and drove mothers crazy.

Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.

The whole idea behind the band was to play music that we love.

I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.

I was listening to music long before rock ‘n roll.

But in my band, I have 4 great singers, so why singing myself ?

It would have been the first time the Beatles and Stones collaborated on stage I suppose. We have played together on record in the past.

With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.

If they were doing something special, like maybe a TV special for the year 2000, playing the old songs, then maybe I’ll do it.

The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.

There are a lot of songs that I absolutely love what I did.

All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the written word better than I could.

The last ten years have been the best of my life.

We don’t sell so many records. When I make the album, I pay the musicians.

People will say that they never heard any of those songs before but back then, no one had heard the obscure songs the Stones were doing.

And that’s why I opened that restaurant just to get some of it out of my attic, to put up on the walls.

I don’t make any money.

Because I had to do everything in bits and pieces, I was never quite satisfied when I finished a solo album or a soundtrack because I knew I could have done them better if I...

There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.

We usually do things a bit more jazzy.

The Stones used to do that a bit. Sometimes we would pull a song that was ten years old out and put it on the album.

Because of the fashion, the young people don’t have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can’t earn any...

Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.

I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.

I want to be creative, more adventurous, and that’s why I left.

It’s like a record, when you make a record and you mix it and it sounds good and then it’s mastered and you hear the mastering when it’s all been heightened and all that and...

You never know what your next dig is going to find.

I think anyone would want to see their favorite band in a small club over a large stadium.

Everybody in the band does it for the same reasons, as I do, to have a good time and send the crowd home with smiles on their faces.

I can dig in my garden and find stuff that dates back to the 1100’s.

The Stones introduced all these young people to the blues music, and I’m doing the same thing.

I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.

I didn’t do music for a couple of years; I just focused on other things.

I’m always shy in front of an audience, so I’m always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don’t like the front, the adulation.

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

I love digging back through the past.

I came away thinking maybe we are not right for America, although I thought we were.

Our record was at 98 in the charts when we went so no-one knew us, so people just didn’t come to our shows – we’d be in a 10,000 stadium and there’d be 300 people...

My life is really full. I am really enjoying it.

I resigned myself to this eventuality. After all, it was the musician’s name first (he’s a lot older than I am, certainly, and perhaps more famous), and . . . But then I remembered. ....

But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old – apart from a few hits – is never played on radio to the young public ?

The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

In the Rhythm Kings I get to play smaller venues and to me that is the best part of it.

I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.

I have no restrictions, no limits, no musical history to live with.