I've got nothing against daylight. I don't live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.

Most guys I know are assholes. I have some great asshole friends, but that's not the point. Friendship has got nothing to do with that. It's can you hang, can you talk about this without any feeling of distance between you? Friendship is the diminishing of distance between people. That's what friendship is, and to me it's one of the most important things in the world.

Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.

When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck (Berry)

I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One minute I was the mark, and with just one swift move, I put the big man in school down. ... Once he was down, the whole atmosphere in the schoolyard changed. A huge cloud seemed to be lifted from me. ... I'd never been aware the cloud was so large.

I wouldn't warm to [Chuck Berry] even if I was cremated next to him.

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.