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

My life is full of broken halos.

I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. 'Here, Dad' — or more likely, 'Dad, have you got any?'

I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It's really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.

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

To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.

[joking about the length of the Rolling Stones' career] You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!