Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.

The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work.

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

No broken hearts, no broken necks.