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.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience

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.

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.

It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.