Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.

Most guys I know are assholes. I have some great asshole friends, but that's not the point. Friendship has got nothing to do with that. It's can you hang, can you talk about this without any feeling of distance between you? Friendship is the diminishing of distance between people. That's what friendship is, and to me it's one of the most important things in the world.

I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing - the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.

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

[joking about the length of the Rolling Stones' career] You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!

Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money