“To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.”

It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.

We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.

If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.

One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab

It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.

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.

The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.

I do a little bit of yoga-style meditation. Relaxing and breathing even just one minute a day makes a big difference.

I like death. I’m a big fan of it.

No matter how much you’re going to be criticized or no matter how big of a risk it is, the boldness is the thing that helps you.

My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.

A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.