Quotes from Ronnie Wood

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

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.

Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.

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 life there's always been an ex-wife or a girlfriend.

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've always thrived on getting a drive from different emotional circumstances that I'm going through.

I'm a Gemini, so I have a great time with the other guy.

We'll rock till we drop. We have all agreed this won't be the last time. Everyone's rocking.

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

When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.

Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much more supportive, which is nice.

Nowadays you can record on your laptop with Pro Tools, which I do quite often.

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.

We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.

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

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 love to get into a landscape and paint my horses.

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

I love to go to Ireland just to relax.

I tried to emulate my favourite guitar players, the old bluesmen like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy. I used to sit by the record player and copy Chuck Berry and the Beatles. You can never copy someone completely, so you end up developing your own style.

You don't make solo albums to have hits.

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