Charlie Watts

It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum. ”

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them. ”

I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once. ”

To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible. ”

I think it's an awful drink, to be honest with you. ”

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

For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called. ”

I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them. ”

People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud. ”