There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.

You see mock death in movies every day, but when it really happens, you're not used to it. Most things in life, you get better the more that you do them, but this is one of those things you don't really want to get any better at.

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.

Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's hard to beat. I shouldn't like it, but I do. I can't put my finger on it.