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 like to have a peek, see what the audience is doing during the opening act, because it gives you a clue and gives you a good feeling of where you are - the air can be different in different places.

Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.

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.

You've got to have fresh wardrobe. You can't just go out there looking like you did last time. That helps your transformation.

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

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.