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.

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.

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

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.

It's all right leaping about the stage when you're 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing

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

I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.