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.

It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.

I can't get no satisfaction.

It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.

There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on.

I don't like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.