Keith Richards

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

It's good to be anywhere.

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

When you're supported by millions all over the world, you can either go nuts, or try to feed off the goodwill.

The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.

Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

I only get ill when I give up drugs.

Ive never had a problem with drugs. Ive had problems with the police.

It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.

Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

Hey, we just enjoy it. I think we think we're getting the hang of this thing, you know?

When 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.

Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

If youre going to kick authority in the teeth you might as well use both feet.

There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

I have no idea what the audience makes of me.

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!

The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.