There's just certain styles of playing that you do play in your own way. Maybe it's in the way your fingers bend, for all I know. And so whenever you pick up the guitar it's not so much the sound of the instrument itself, it's like the ting that you add onto it-the attitude.

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'

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

My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.

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

Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?