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

Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.

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 written - just pathetic. But that was as good as I got at the time.

Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.

I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he's gonna do tomorrow and I'm just happy to wake up to see who's hanging around. Mick's rock and I'm roll.