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

And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.

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

Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal

I only get ill when I give up drugs... I don't have a drug problem, I have a police problem.

I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.

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