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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.

Mick Jagger

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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Life Stardom
I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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Attitude Behavior Myself Privacy Time
My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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Believe Myself Poetry Secret
Time is on my side, yes it is.
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Belief Inspirational Myself Side Time
Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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Death End Feeling World
It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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Let Go Return Yourself
I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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Energy Isolation Myself Need People
If you’re really on some heavily addictive drug, you think about the drug, and everything else is secondary. You try and make everything work, but the drug comes first.
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Addiction Drugs heavy Work Yourself
I 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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Country Hard Love Music Myself Serious
I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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Afraid Expression Fear Myself People Thinking Time
Everyone knows what their roots are, but you’ve got to explore everywhere. You’ve got to explore the sky too.
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Exploration Root Sky Travel Yourself
Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can’t be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that’s always good.
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Goodness Moments Music Raise Rare Stand Yourself
I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
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Care Forget Myself Past Song Trap
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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Choice Comfortable Home Live Myself Preference
Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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Actor Mad Man President
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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Care Face Myself Page
I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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Habit Myself Tea
I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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Death Satisfaction Sing
I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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Enjoyment Myself People Thinking Young
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.
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Different Enjoyment History Kind Music Myself Sing Tradition Type
I don’t really mind criticism in music or in shows and stuff like that at all. I mean, it doesn’t really worry me even if it’s like out of place. At least it’s relevant.
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Criticism Mindset Myself Place Worry
You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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Bath Cleaning Day Illusion Yourself
People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It’s very selfish, but it’s understandable.
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Obsession People Selfish Understand Yourself Youth
You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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Jealous Leadership Yourself
He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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Himself Music Name. Steal Theft
The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
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Achievement Mad Performance Way Yourself
You never really know what’s going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they’re going to behave.
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Attitude Audience Behavior Unknown Yourself

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.

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