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

I always got great respect as a bass player.

I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.

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.

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.

I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.