George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently..

One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab.

To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you..

There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down th….

The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush..

Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman..

Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed..

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones..

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….

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing..

You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good..

The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opp….

I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!.

I don't regret nuthin..

Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal.

The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history..

There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you. . .When it works, baby, ….

You don't find a style. A style finds you.

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….

When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck (Berry).

One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience.