My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

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.

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

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

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

I can’t get no satisfaction.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

We have a lot of secondary market problems in the U.K.; it’s really bad there. And lots of artists are starting to participate in it, because they put the tickets up at a certain price,...

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

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.

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

I’ve managed to avoid tattoos so far.

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

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

I’d rather be dead than singing ‘Satisfaction’ when I’m 45.

I have a lot of songs, and I’d love to do some more recording with the band.

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

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

When I’m 33, I quit.

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

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

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

I’m very much against the secondary ticket market. I don’t know anyone who isn’t.

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

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.

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.

The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

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

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.

Life’s just a cocktail party – on the street.