Ronnie Wood
It's good fun, making a solo album, because there's perhaps songs that wouldn't get used for the Stones or any other kind of outfit that I'm working with. It's just nice to be the boss.
I've always thrived on getting a drive from different emotional circumstances that I'm going through.
When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the instruments is a great release.
During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, 'Hang on a minute - I can paint.' I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.
I have a life coach out with me on tour, a very nice guy from L.A. He just prepares me for each day.
All my family back to the 1700s were water Gypsies. My brothers and me, we were the first ones to be born on dry land. All the rest of them were born on barges in the canals.
I'm more lost when I'm not on tour. I'm in a bit of a muddle at nine o'clock - 'Where's the stage?' On tour, there are people directing and supervising you.
I find it hard to get old and hard to say, 'No.'
Married life is absolutely brilliant.
I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'Collection: Growing Up
When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin art collectors and everything!Collection: Music
During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, "Hang on a minute - I can paint." I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.Collection: Hurt
We'll rock till we drop. We have all agreed this won't be the last time. Everyone's rocking.Collection: Retirement
I can't go along with all that shit about having to give everything up. I'd always say to them in the clinic I'm still going to have a Guinness, I'm still going to have a glass of wine. They say you can smoke 400 cigs a day and drink 20 cups of coffee, but you can't have a line or a drink again.Collection: Coffee
I will miss a good friend who was so talanted. He was such agreat performer/ guitar player. Sleep well Prince.Collection: Sleep
Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in black cool. Everything he did was natural and perfect.Collection: Music
I think people are just creative, and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.Collection: Art
In my family, they were all big boozers, but they all lived to ripe old ages.Collection: My Family