If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting.

When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it.

I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. 'Here, Dad' — or more likely, 'Dad, have you got any?'

I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.