My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

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 had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.

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

I can't really sing and play live, because I can't play bass efficiently and sing at the same time. If I concentrated on the vocals, I'd mess up the bass, and if I concentrated on the bass, I'd forget the lines.

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.

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