My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
MICK JAGGERI love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.
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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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The past is a great place and I don’t want to erase it or to regret it, but I don’t want to be its prisoner either.
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I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
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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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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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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
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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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I’m not the businessman. I don’t deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I’ve run out of money, I have to go and make some more.
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As long as my face is on page one, I don’t care what they say about me on page seventeen.
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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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I don’t want to be a rock star all my life. I couldn’t bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags.
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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
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