[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!

If you're gonna get wasted, get wasted elegantly.

You don't find a style. A style finds you

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

I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?

What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: 'He passed it on.'

The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.