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.

I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.

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