What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.

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.

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

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

If you're cool, you don't know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain't.

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

We do what we want to do. We write songs. We try not to repeat ourselves too much. We have our own sound and our own way of doing things. Up until now it has always been enjoyable. None of the members have ever got to the point where they don't want to be involved in it ... It's not entirely possible for me to stand back and look at the Rolling Stones because being a part of it you can't. I wish that I could just sit in the audience for one night and see the show. Everyone in the band has said that at some point. But then you wouldn't be seeing the whole band. And that's the problem with that.