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.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

Right now I can't be sure that I will be back on stage. We have been touring for two years and that is way too much.

I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.

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

You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock 'n' roll and have sex.

I was never that interested in business, to be honest. I do the minimal amount of business as possible because I'm not actually interested in it as a thing. But some people are interested in it, and there's nothing wrong with that.