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..

Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor..

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

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….

Songwriting's a weird game..

I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen..

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….

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

Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain..

The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start..

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….

A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar,….

The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an observer. ... You're constantly on….

[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 don't like to go into the studio with all the songs worked out and planned before hand ... you've got to give the band something to use its imagina….

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

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere..

We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right..

No broken hearts, no broken necks..

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something spec….

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral..