When I heard he [Mick Taylor] was leaving the band, I thought, Well, this will be incredible. He's going to go from here to there. I thought he would be a Pat Metheny or something. And it didn't happen. Nothing happened when he left us.

I don't like playing outdoors and I certainly don't like festivals.

Glastonbury, it's old hat really. I never liked the hippy thing to start with.

I still wear clothes I bought 30 years ago. They cost so much money I refuse to let them go.

In the mid-60s the tours would be a trip around England, then a trip around America, recording in America, back to Europe, England to America. You were living together the whole time, and we used to get a month off, at the most. You were younger, though. And also you were more photogenic, to be honest. I don't think Keith would want you photographing him at two in the morning now.

A lot of white bands to me are vastly overrated. I say white bands because most of the music I love to play on record is by black American musicians, 40s and 50s stuff. Zeppelin (Led Zeppelin) were amazing. Just the sound of Bonham (John Bonham) and Jimmy Page was an amazing sound in itself, without anything else. And then you had the fact that they were bloody good players.

Chuck Berry's studio band - there isn't a better rock'n'roll band. That's where we got it from. "Roll Over Beethoven" by everybody else is a joke.

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.

I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it.

I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.