True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other

I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It's really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.

Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.

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

I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.

I don't know if people in New York recognize me or not. I'm not really conscious of it. If somebody stops me, then I suddenly realize that people are looking at me, but other times they may be doing it and I don't even know because I'm engrossed in something else.

You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.