Bill Wyman
I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
I have no restrictions, no limits, no musical history to live with.
I have found two Roman sites in the area that I live in.
I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.
I don't make any money.
I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time.
I didn't do music for a couple of years; I just focused on other things.
I can dig in my garden and find stuff that dates back to the 1100's.
I came away thinking maybe we are not right for America, although I thought we were.
I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.
I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.
I always got great respect as a bass player.
Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
Everybody in the band does it for the same reasons, as I do, to have a good time and send the crowd home with smiles on their faces.
But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public ?
But in my band, I have 4 great singers, so why singing myself ?
Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it.
Because I had to do everything in bits and pieces, I was never quite satisfied when I finished a solo album or a soundtrack because I knew I could have done them better if I could have focused on them 100% until they were done.
And that's why I opened that restaurant just to get some of it out of my attic, to put up on the walls.