Mick Jagger recently chatted with Rolling Stone, chronicling how he’s been holding up in the COVID-19 era.

“I’m writing some new songs and getting along with some documentary projects for different things. A few movie things I can get on with,” The Rolling Stones frontman says of his quarantine in the English countryside. “You know, you try to keep yourself busy, because there’s quite a lot of downtime. But I still try to enjoy that as much as possible, like a lot of people.”

Later, he says that The Stones could play a socially-distant concert, but notes how the global discrepancy in infection is a difficult thing to process, “I’m feeling really sorry for some of my friends who don’t have as much, or can’t get out, or if they do get out, it’s a bit fraught. Every time I read the American newspapers, it looks just horrific.”

The Stones have kept busy during the pandemic, however. They released a new track, offered a weekly “Extra Licks” concert broadcast and shared a previously-unheard Jimmy Page collaboration.

But as for live music, Jagger remains uncertain.

“We don’t know how it’s going to function,” he adds. “In Europe, we’ve had small-scale concerts. We’ve had socially-distanced concerts. You can see [concerts] starting in some parts of the world, New Zealand, Australia, so on. But as far as the U.S. is concerned, we don’t really know what the future holds. So many people [are] out of work, losing money. Is it ever going to be the same again? Will it be always different? We just don’t know.”

Read the whole interview here.