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

If you're cool, you don't know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain't.

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

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.

About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.

No broken hearts, no broken necks.

I haven't stopped smoking...anything