When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

I have no idea what the audience makes of me.

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

I'm an unpure purist, something like that.

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

If you're gonna get wasted, get wasted elegantly.

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.