If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music..

I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing - the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a….

It's really good to be here and as I always say, it's really good to be anywhere!.

I am not doing it just for the money or for you.I am doing it for me..

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

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..

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

Songwriting's a weird game..

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….

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….

I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, "I tried, I can't do i….

But I've always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I'm here, nothi….

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

[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….

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous..

Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of..

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

If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly..

I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one..

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You ca….