I wanted a variety in my life but after a couple of years I thought that music is what I do so maybe I should start doing it again. |
I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll. |
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 they were doing something special, like maybe a TV special for the year 2000, playing the old songs, then maybe I'll do it. |
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. |
In the Rhythm Kings I get to play smaller venues and to me that is the best part of it. |
It wasn't the be all and end all of my life. |
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. |
It's also great to work with people I've known for many years. |
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 it sounds better still - it's the same thing with a book. |
My first record I owned was by Les Paul. |
My life is really full. I am really enjoying it. |
Our first time in America wasn't a very good tour because they didn't know us because we hadn't had a hit record. |
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 there. |
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. |