Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

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

You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.

A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

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.