Some things get better with age. Like me.

Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.

There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.

One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab

True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other

To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.

I don't know if people in New York recognize me or not. I'm not really conscious of it. If somebody stops me, then I suddenly realize that people are looking at me, but other times they may be doing it and I don't even know because I'm engrossed in something else.