Rock & roll mostly is a very butch thing, and it appeals to one hard side of the masculine character. But I don't think the Rolling Stones are only a rock band. They can be other things. They can be very feminine.

There's no great technical expertise in being a movie producer.

Rock has to absorb other rhythmic forms, because the underlying rhythm of music changes with fashion, and people like to move differently, and the underlying rhythms have to be the ones that people want to dance to.

Taking drugs on a recreation level is one thing. But taking them while you're working on a stage is, I don't think it was that great. It's the control factor. And the thing about being on stage, you really want to feel that you're sort of in control a lot. It's not a place where you want to be out of control.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant

The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.