But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know….

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library,….

Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn't die of an overdose, he died of fame..

No broken hearts, no broken necks..

The public library is the great equaliser..

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

I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself..

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….

It's basically against the whole idea of what always made rock&roll music interesting to me. I thought it was an unassailable outlet for some pure an….

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?.

What is life but playing with time?.

There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. ….

And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and….

I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from an audience. That's my fuel. All i've got is t….

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….

To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give ….

What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet..

There's just certain styles of playing that you do play in your own way. Maybe it's in the way your fingers bend, for all I know. And so whenever you….

I don't know if people in New York recognize me or not. I'm not really conscious of it. If somebody stops me, then I suddenly realize that people are….

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

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