Despite being locked down for the last year, Mick Jagger says he hasn’t had a change of heart about revisiting his memoir, something he started in the ’80s when he was offered a lot of money.
“When I started to actually get into it I really didn’t enjoy it. And what I didn’t enjoy was reliving my life, you know, to the detriment of living in the now. This is not a process you can just do in a week, you know. It takes a lot of you. A lot out of you. It takes a lot of reliving emotions, reliving, you know, friendships, reliving ups and downs and all this. And, I must say, it wasn’t the most enjoyable experience. So I just said, ‘Oh, I can’t bother with this’ and I just gave the money back to the publisher. I’ll do it another day and that was the end of it.”
Though there have been reports that Jagger has a 75,000-word manuscript locked away somewhere, the only members of The Rolling Stones who’ve published their autobiographies are Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and former bassist Bill Wyman.
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