It made me sick - my name's Keith Richards. It hardly makes it against Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters, does it? On my first guitar I had Boy Blue written - just pathetic. But that was as good as I got at the time.

My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.

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

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.

To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it.

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