Age is no barrier to 60-year-old Jagger who vows to keep rolling

Mick Jagger celebrated his 60th birthday in July, but the energetic showman says the milestone does not bother him.

'You don't think about those sorts of things [turning 60] when you're younger,' the Rolling Stones' singer said yesterday. 'You don't want to dwell on it too much, but I feel fine. I'm fit, I'm working and I'm happy, so there's not really much more you can ask for.'

Although at the end of an 18-month tour, Jagger, along with drummer Charlie Watts and guitarists Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood, has been busy rehearsing at the Academy for Performing Arts' Lyric Theatre to tonight and Sunday's Harbour Fest shows.

'The last 18 months have been a fantastic tour for us,' said Jagger, sounding upbeat and jovial at his base in the Grand Hyatt hotel. 'We've done 120 gigs, we've been very successful. Now it's coming to an end, I feel good about it.'

In a 15-minute interview, Jagger said he was blessed with enormous energy at birth. The rest is drawn from the fans. 'If the audience doesn't give you as much energy as you would like, then you have to work a bit harder,' he said.

While the Stones appear to have achieved everything a band could wish for, Jagger said he still had goals. 'I'm still quite an ambitious person. When we started out, we had ambitions, some of which were relatively small and some quite large. A lot of them we have achieved. Now I want to still keep going, at a certain level.