To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?

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

You're sitting with some guys, and you're playing and you go, "Ooh, yeah!" That feeling is worth more than anything. 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. You're elevated because you're with a bunch of guys that want to do the same thing as you. And when it works, baby, you've got wings. You know you've been somewhere most people will never get; you've been to a special place.

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 the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting.

The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.