I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

My life is full of broken halos.

The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an observer. ... You're constantly on the alert. That faculty gets trained in you over the years: observing people, how they react to one another, which in a way makes you weirdly distant. ... It's a little of Peeping Tom, being a song-writer.

About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.

I only get ill when I give up drugs... I don't have a drug problem, I have a police problem.

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.