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.

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

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

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

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?

I always got great respect as a bass player.

I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.