I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I'll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It's a little embarr….

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….

When you're supported by millions all over the world, you can either go nuts, or try to feed off the goodwill..

[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards..

Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life..

We do what we want to do. We write songs. We try not to repeat ourselves too much. We have our own sound and our own way of doing things. Up until no….

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

Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters..

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

What interested me about Chuck Berry was the way he could step out of the rhythm part with such ease, throwing in a nice, simple riff, and then drop ….

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

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll..

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

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

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

It made me sick - my name's Keith Richards. It hardly makes it against Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters, does it? On my first guitar I had Boy Blue writt….

I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur..

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

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….

About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I d….

If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool..