“I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I’m tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.”

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.

The grown-up world was a very ordered society in the early ’60s, and I was coming out of it. America was even more ordered than anywhere else. I found it was a very restrictive society in thought and behavior and dress.

You can’t be jealous and be a leader.

I don’t think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It’s not necessarily some state of grace.

You don’t always do the same things you’ve done the night before. That’s what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.

Time is on my side, yes it is.

I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.

I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.

Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.

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.

It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.

The leader of the genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

The larger Europe grows, the more diverse must be the forms of co-operation it requires.

All she built had fallen apart it’s OK she believed destruction was art.

Love comes in different shapes and sizes. But most importantly it comes in different colors.

He doesn’t yearn for a better, different life than the one he has – because he knows he’s got a home in this one.

Music is a different kind of intimacy. So is poetry.

Love and devotion are different words for a reason.

You were meant to be different.