I didn't have any inhibitions. I saw Elvis and Gene Vincent, and I thought, "Well, I can do this." And I liked doing it.

Either we stay at home and become pillars of the community or we go out and tour. We couldn't really find any communities that still needed pillars.

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.

If you're the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.

I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people in a movie. Wouldn't that be awful of me to say that? The only sympathizing thing I might say for people that want to [grumble] is that a filmmaker should have an understanding for the place where the people you're portraying are coming from.

Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.