If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused.
Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?
We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it.
The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing...
Memory is fiction,
I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.
It's really good to be here and as I always say, it's really good to be anywhere!
But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know this feeling?
I don't regret nuthin...
Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money
Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.
True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other
My life is full of broken halos.
And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.
Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience
Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid.
Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal
I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
I am not doing it just for the money or for you.I am doing it for me.
I was husband for a week. Changed the baby's diapers. There's somebody in a suburb in Melbourne who doesn't even know i wiped his ass
All the contortions we go through just not to be ourselves for a few hours.
