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"It’s been about a year now," Richards told
Rolling Stone magazine in an interview. "I pulled the plug on
it. I got fed up with it."
Richards, 74, who has said his favorite tipple for decades has
been whiskey or vodka, said he still had a glass of wine
occasionally and a beer.
“It was time to quit. Just like all the other stuff,” he told
the magazine, referring to his past addiction to cocaine, heroin
and other hard drugs. Richards has said he quit drugs after a
1977 arrest in Canada for heroin possession.
Bandmate Ron Wood, who battled alcoholism for years, said
Richards was easier to work with since giving up drink.
"Much more mellow. He’s open to more ideas," Wood said in the
interview, published on Wednesday.
"I think the Keith that we used to know and love had this cutoff
point where if he had one more, he’d go over the top and he’d be
nasty. The cutoff point became shorter and shorter, you know,
and he realized that," Wood added.
The Rolling Stones will launch their next North American tour in
April.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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