I’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’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 consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
KEITH RICHARDSI like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
KEITH RICHARDSSongwriting’s a weird game.
KEITH RICHARDSNobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
KEITH RICHARDSRock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
KEITH RICHARDSEverybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
KEITH RICHARDSI occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
KEITH RICHARDSThere’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
KEITH RICHARDSMy life is full of broken halos.
KEITH RICHARDSI’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
KEITH RICHARDSGuitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
KEITH RICHARDSThe public library is the great equaliser.
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 RICHARDSI 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.
KEITH RICHARDS