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We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything.

I've got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV. Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band.

Also I played on a lot of demos in the early days of the Stones.

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out.

The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

I first went on the road with the Rolling Stones in the year of our Lord, 1969. But my grandfather gave me away to a drummer when I was 15 years old.

The first record I bought was a Carl Perkins record, because I saw him at The Festival at Sandpoint, Idaho. I loved Elvis and I found out that he wrote 'Blue Suede Shoes'... so connecting that experience of going to see him play was pretty awesome. That's when I realised I wanted to play guitar.

I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.