A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.

I can't get no satisfaction.

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

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.

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it.

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.

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

People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.

A good thing never ends.

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

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.

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.

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.

A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.

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

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.

Anyone taking heroin is thinking about taking heroin more than theyre thinking about anything else. Thats the general rule about most drugs.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind

There's no absolutes in life, only vodka.

I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman.

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.