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.

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.

You could put Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley on one side of the stage, and James Brown on the other, and you wouldn't even notice the others were there!

You never know what your next dig is going to find.

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

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

The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.