As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

I liked John a lot. He was the one I really got on with the most. We weren't buddy-buddies but we were always friendly. But after the Beatles and the Stones stopped playing clubs, we didn't see each other that much until he separated from Yoko, around 1974. We got really friendly again. And when he went back with Yoko, he went into hibernation ... when I went to visit someone in the Dakota, I'd leave him a note saying: 'I live next door: I know you don't want to see anyone, but if you do, please call.' He never did.

I don't want to be singing Satisfaction when I'm 40.

Time is on my side, yes it is.

In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.

You don't always do the same things you've done the night before. That's what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.

When Gimme Shelter was recorded, early '69 or something, it was a time of war and tension, so that's reflected in this tune. It's still wheeled out when big storms happen, as they did the other week. It's been used a lot to evoke natural disaster.