“You can’t be jealous and be a leader.”

I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.

The grown-up world was a very ordered society in the early ’60s, and I was coming out of it. America was even more ordered than anywhere else. I found it was a very restrictive society in thought and behavior and dress.

I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I’m tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

I don’t think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It’s not necessarily some state of grace.

You don’t always do the same things you’ve done the night before. That’s what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.

Time is on my side, yes it is.

I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.

I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.

Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It’s true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.

You can’t always get what you want.

I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

As long as my face is on page one, I don’t care what they say about me on page seventeen.

Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions

It was the first time I’d ever felt truly jealous of anyone else in my entire life.

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?

Some say jealousy is a disease, and is so, we are two patients who can never be cured.

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

Far less envy in America than in France.