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

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.

Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work.

I wouldn't warm to [Chuck Berry] even if I was cremated next to him.

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

I don't regret nuthin.