Why is Keith Richards having problems writing his autobiography? Because he got high. Why is Keith Richards eating cigarettes on stage? Because he got high. Why is Keith Richards laying on a beach, complaining that he’s read every book ever written, so someone better hurry up and make more? Because he got high, because he got high, because he got high. “I smoke my head off. I smoke weed all the damn time. There, you’ve got it,” Keef told The Sun in a new interview. “But that’s my benign weed. That’s all I take, that’s all I do. But I do smoke and I’ve got some really good hash.”

All in all, his life sounds pretty much as you’d expect, lots of laying around on the beach, strumming his guitar and reading (”I’ve read every book ever written. I’m running out. Somebody please write one!”). Even if Keith wasn’t laboriously working on his autobiography (”I can’t even remember yesterday…and since I didn’t keep a diary it’s a bit difficult”), smoking bans would probably keep him up in a palm tree anyway. There he wouldn’t be reduced to eating his own cigarettes, as he did last August in what was threatened to be their last London show.

“It’s a drag because you’ve got to freeze your balls off to light a cigarette, you’ve got to go outside. “It’s draconian - socially, politically-correct bullshit. That’s what it is. They’ll get over it. It’s like prohibition, they tried to stop booze once. Ha, look what happened. It ruined America.”

America ruined? Southern man don’t need you around, anyhow. Unless you’re carrying.

Keef: I Can’t Remember Yesterday [The Sun]
Stones Stones London 26 08 2007 [YouTube]