During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, "Hang on a minute - I can paint." I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.

I like it when journalists are nice to me, and it's happening more and more.

When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the instruments is a great release.

I used to worry, 'I've lost my family.' They hated me for a while, but they're very resilient.

I'm still digging long-established bands like U2 - they're new to me!

Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.

You don't make solo albums to have hits.