I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.

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

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

I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time.

I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.

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 money doing it.

Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've always had. It suits me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio.