I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing.

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

What originally established the band was cover songs like Not Fade Away. Then, later on, we got more well-known ones like Satisfaction, which you might say echoed the thinking of, well, any generation you care to name, including the present one. But we didn't set out on bits of paper that we were going to be the voice of a generation. The original aim of the Rolling Stones was to play blues. It wasn't even to play rock music.

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.

The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.