Quotes
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.
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.