My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
MICK JAGGERI don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can’t force them to like it.
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The elusive nature of love it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it’s just fluttering and it’s gone.
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I remember when I was very young, I read an article by Fats Domino which has really influenced me. He said, ‘You should never sing the lyrics out very clearly.
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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.
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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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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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