The 82-year-old reflected on ageing during a recent appearance on The New York Times’ podcast The Interview.
Asked whether there was anything good or bad about getting older, Jagger replied: “There’s nothing good about it. Nothing. You don’t get wisdom. You forget everything. Forgot all my wisdom.”
“I might have had a couple of pearls, but I’ve forgotten what they are,” he continued. “It’s not particularly pleasant and, of course, you can’t do things as quickly as you want to, and physically you can’t do things that you would like to do. You can still do them, but you have to be more careful.”
Jagger also discussed how more than six decades of fame had affected his relationship with the outside world.
“Obviously, it’s not normal,” he said. “It is not like most people’s lives. It does affect you. You can become disassociated. From other people.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Jagger discussed the relationship between the Stones and their audiences, explaining that he wanted their concerts to offer an escape from everyday worries rather than become political lectures.
“The bottom line is that my job in the live music world is to [ensure] people that come have the best time they possibly can, and for two hours forget all their problems and the problems of the world,” he said. “Their mortgages and whatever. Just so they can have the best time.”
“Your job is to make them go more apeshit,” he added. “You don’t want to lecture them.”
Despite his thoughts on ageing, Jagger recently told NME that he remained creatively active and had already started writing more material.
“Yeah, it could be a trio [of records],” he said when asked whether another album was planned. “I’ve already started writing songs anyway. They could be for other people though.”
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards shared insight on the new album, Olivia Rodrigo, AI, and more.
Robert Smith has been having a lot of fun with features lately. Not only did he play a major role in Olivia Rodrigo's latest album, but he's also on the Foreign Tongues' track "Jealous Lover." Billboard writer Joe Lynch asked what Jagger thought about Rodrigo's rock music. Here's what he said:
She’s really good at it. Everyone thought she was a different kind of singer, but there’s quite a few female singers that have made that transition. It’s not a permanent transition necessarily, but the ability to change styles from what you think their original girly pop stuff is — it’s kind of interesting.
Lynch later asked each musician for their thoughts on AI and its intersection with music:
RICHARDS: My thoughts are: I’d rather hear something original. Music could do a lot better than just trying to copy itself. After all, it’s pretty simple stuff — this is not Beethoven or Bach, and I’ve no doubt AI can do that, but so what? We want new input. We don’t want more and more copying and synthesizing. At least that’s my point of view. Music is to play around with. Surely there’s enough originality without having to copy nursery rhymes.
JAGGER: Obviously I don’t want to be imitated by AI, vocally and instrumentally, and the band doesn’t. I don’t want people just putting stuff out there that can sound exactly like the Rolling Stones — I think that’s obviously wrong. If someone wants to make music by AI, go ahead. But it has to be original — you have to have your own input and your own thoughts. There are people who use AI to just make a song from scratch, in the style of the Rolling Stones. If you were any kind of creative person, you wouldn’t do that.
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