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.

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.

People have different personalities when they're drunk or take heroin, or whatever drugs.

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.

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

I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture.