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.

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.

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?

You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.

I'm not a musician, I just play bass.

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.

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.