“Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.”

It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.

My life is full of broken halos.

There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.

I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.

Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?

I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.

My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.

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.

Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.

I don’t regret nothing.

What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

No broken hearts, no broken necks.

The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.

To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.

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.

Charlie Christians’ contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons’ contributions to the world.

It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn’t play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.

To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don’t know why you like ’em but you do.

I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.

As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.

I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!

I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

I’m about a 20-handicapper with a guitar. I can only play three songs on my own album. I did the lyrics, not the music.