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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.
All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the written word better than I could.
There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly believes that no matter what the evidence was at any particular time, essentially everything led to Saddam Hussein.
My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don't go with a story unless you have two independent sources to confirm it.
Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.
It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.
In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.
If we are going to have a health care program that works for all Americans, we are going to have to get beyond the blame game.
I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer who is getting clobbered by these gasoline and oil prices.