“What I've always lacked is a really strong band to back me up.” — Mick Taylor

If it wasn't for Mick, the group would've fallen apart a long time ago.

The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there.

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed.

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea.