It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.

Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.

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

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

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.