I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric blues - the latest Muddy Waters.….

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either..

You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to..

I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for w….

The only new technology that interests me is when it sort of throws me back soundwise. And I can think, "Wow, that means I can go onstage and sound l….

I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records..

It's called the mysterious rhythm of life, ... I can't quite account for it. It's probably an addiction, quite honestly. I need that shot of stage ev….

Well, I'm not putting death on the agenda. I don't want to see my old friend Lucifer just yet. He's the guy I'm gonna see, isn't it? I'm not going to….

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones..

I'm not getting old I'm evolving..

Some things get better with age. Like me..

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police..

It's good to be anywhere..

Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show..

I'm free of hypochondria-- although I've got everything else..

Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem..

[joking about the length of the Rolling Stones' career] You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rol….

Songwriting's a weird game..

Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it..

You're sitting with some guys, and you're playing and you go, "Ooh, yeah!" That feeling is worth more than anything. There's a certain moment when yo….