You can't always get what you want.

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

When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can't force them to like it.

Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can't be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that's always good.

I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.

People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.

Boys were a very essential part of rock & roll. The girls were more onlookers.