My life is full of broken halos.

The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.

One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab

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

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 a very exciting performance.

Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it.