Bill Wyman

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.

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?

I have no restrictions, no limits, no musical history to live with.

I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.

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.

I don't make any money.

There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.

I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.

With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.

Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.

I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.

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.