I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.
MICK JAGGERIt’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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I always think it’s better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That’s not saying I’ve never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been – it didn’t take me that long to realize that it wasn’t a good thing.
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If you’re really on some heavily addictive drug, you think about the drug, and everything else is secondary. You try and make everything work, but the drug comes first.
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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you’ve experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered, and you just must let your imagination run.
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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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I think it’s very important that you have at least some sort of inner thing you don’t talk about. That’s why I find it distasteful when all these pop stars talk about their habits.
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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.
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The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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You can’t always get what you want.
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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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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.
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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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