The 71-year-old drummer for the British rock band the Rolling Stones, Charlie Watts wanted to leave the band last year. In an interview with the Telegraph the Stones drummer said he was not excited about the band's upcoming tour.

The Rolling Stones are doing a 50^th anniversary tour with a stop at the 2013 Glastonbury Festival. In the interview Charlie Watts said he hates playing outdoors and didn't want to play the festival. He says since the band agreed to play the show he went along with it.

"I don't want to do it. Everyone else does. I don't like playing outdoors, and I certainly don't like festivals ... But that's me, personally. When you're a band ... you do anything and everything. But Glastonbury, it's old hat really. I never liked the hippy thing to start with. It's not what I'd like to do for a weekend, I can tell you."

Watts added, "The worst thing playing outdoors is when the wind blows, if you're a drummer, because the cymbals move... it's really is hard to play then."

Continuing in his Telegraph interview Charlie Watts admitted he never wanted to join the Rolling Stones. He did not take the "gig" seriously and was in fact waiting to begin another job. Watts said that it was the Stones' lead singer Mick Jagger that helped him be okay with his decision to stay with the band. Watts said Jagger taught him a lot "about playing with songs, really, the melodies and that."

Watts had considered leaving the band last year just before the Stones played the O2 Arena in London last year. Watts feels that the Stones are a band of the past. He doesn't like that a lot of their job revolves around image and not the music. Watts called the music industry a "young person's game." The Rolling Stones formed in London in 1962.

"I thought [about leaving the band] before the O2, but it was actually very comfortable to do. It was good fun, is what I meant to say. (I had misgivings.) I always do. It's a young person's [game]. The thing I find difficult is that 50% of it is image, not my side of it, but it is, and as you get a bit older you think, "Oh gawd!" I don't like looking at the pictures."

So far Charlie Watts has decided not to leave the Rolling Stones. He will be a part of the Stones 50^th anniversary tour. Despite his objection Charlie Watts will play the show at the Glastonbury Festival.