What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
KEITH RICHARDSWhat’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
KEITH RICHARDSI’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
KEITH RICHARDSWhen I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
KEITH RICHARDSEverybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
KEITH RICHARDSYou get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
KEITH RICHARDSI’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
KEITH RICHARDSI am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
KEITH RICHARDSWe all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
KEITH RICHARDSI haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
KEITH RICHARDSMy life is full of broken halos.
KEITH RICHARDSSome people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
KEITH RICHARDSWe age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
KEITH RICHARDSI’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
KEITH RICHARDSI was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
KEITH RICHARDS