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

No broken hearts, no broken necks.

When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck (Berry)

Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.

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.