The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.

I read Mailer's Ancient Evenings with great interest because I was interested in . . . the seven souls structure, which was very helpful to me in Western Lands. And also in Place of Dead Roads. So that's Mailer.

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

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.

I'm an old-fashioned person, and I don't like informers.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse