About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.