Bill Wyman
Our first time in America wasn't a very good tour because they didn't know us because we hadn't had a hit record.
My life is really full. I am really enjoying it.
My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
It's like a record, when you make a record and you mix it and it sounds good and then it's mastered and you hear the mastering when it's all been heightened and all that and it sounds better still - it's the same thing with a book.
It's also great to work with people I've known for many years.
It would have been the first time the Beatles and Stones collaborated on stage I suppose. We have played together on record in the past.
It wasn't the be all and end all of my life.
In the Rhythm Kings I get to play smaller venues and to me that is the best part of it.
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.
If they were doing something special, like maybe a TV special for the year 2000, playing the old songs, then maybe I'll do it.
I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.
I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.
I wanted a variety in my life but after a couple of years I thought that music is what I do so maybe I should start doing it again.
I want to be creative, more adventurous, and that's why I left.
I try to listen to the music channels but you hear stuff where people sing terribly out of tune and they play the wrong notes and chords.
I think anyone would want to see their favorite band in a small club over a large stadium.
I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
I love digging back through the past.
I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.