Ronnie Wood

“My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.”

“I just think my body can't handle it any more. I did try a little drink a while back, and I was actually physically ill. I went into an immediate depression, and felt awful, just dreadful. So that's it. I'm over it now.”

“We're great, Jo and me. We're pals, and I guess sex has a lot to do with it. She's also brilliant at clearing a room. So protective, so devoted. I can't believe how much she loves me.”

“I used to worry, 'I've lost my family.' They hated me for a while, but they're very resilient.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.”

“I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt.”

“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'm still digging long-established bands like U2 - they're new to me!”

“I had a fiery affair with George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd.”

“I have a life coach out with me on tour, a very nice guy from L.A. He just prepares me for each day.”

“I always want to rock.”

“I like it when journalists are nice to me, and it's happening more and more.”

“Mick says, Would you join the band? I say to him, Mick, you know I'd be there in a New York minute.”

“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.”

“I have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life - we all take risks.”

“Amazing, the poisons I used to put in my body. I used to love it.”

“There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.”

“Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.”