You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.

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

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.

Hey, we just enjoy it. I think we think we're getting the hang of this thing, you know?

Rap - so many words, so little said.

What interested me about Chuck Berry was the way he could step out of the rhythm part with such ease, throwing in a nice, simple riff, and then drop straight into the feel of it again. We used to play a lot more rhythm stuff. We'd do away with the differences between lead and rhythm guitar. You can't go into a shop and ask for a "lead guitar". You're a guitar player, and you play a guitar.

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.