Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.

It’s very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don’t really have that much control with it.

And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without...

I’m pretty much below the radar of commercial visibility everywhere, though the US is indeed the place I’ve sadly most neglected.

I had written movie scores, television series, played with other people. Carl had done the same with Asia, with other bands, everything. We weren’t about to entrust Greg automatically with a production credit.

I don’t like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you....

I wouldn’t do go to another band.

I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we...

All things can be forgiven if we can progress.

There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.

Yeah, it is, because it’s a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That’s what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just...

Celebrity and secrets don’t go together. The bastards will get you in the end.

There’s nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better.

If you’re a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.

We used to play in a theater club in London called The King’s Head. When the theater let nut, around 10:00 P.M., we’d be ready to go and really get it on for about an...

Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the...

There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.

Because of the fashion, the young people don’t have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can’t earn any...

You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you’ve got thousands of chicks there.

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn’t tell it like it was.

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven’t. I am grateful to them for that.

My perfect girl would be pretty mad, but one you can have a conversation with. No one can be too mad for me, the madder the better. I love a crazy chick!

We’ll be presenting a broad spectrum of the music and looking at how the younger guys can carry it on.

Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it’s all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was...

There’s no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I’m not; I’m cult level.

I’ve been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I’ve been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are...

I love my mother dearly, but it wouldn’t be suitable for me to live with her all the time.

I don’t really think of Dire Straits as a sound, you know. It. just depends on the song, and the stuff we’re doing is so varied.

I’ll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing.

It’s sort of a feeling of power onstage. It’s really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have...

Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.

I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.

You know, that’s it, there’s no turning back because what it’s made of is so fine. It’s like crystal, you know, it’s like the purest crystal.

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I’ve always felt about that decision – it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting...

My mother had all these scrap books she kept and the reviews, I was also fortunate to have a list of every gig I’ve ever played in my life.

Well, I was born in Scotland and spent the first six years of my life there. Then I went to Newcastle-On-Tyne in northeast England, close to Scotland.

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

I think anyone would want to see their favorite band in a small club over a large stadium.

A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.

But reality television is here to stay.

Of course, I want to sell this record – there’s no point making it otherwise.

I haven’t shaved my private parts, but I dyed them once for a laugh! They looked more ginger, though!

What can you do? You’ve gotta move on.

I didn’t actually realise what apartheid meant. I’m probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.