Each song has its own secret that’s different from another song, and each has its own life. Sometimes it has to be teased out, whereas other times it might come fast. There are no laws...

I must say American radio is good in a way because for new groups, especially like English groups that’s how the interest picked up on us over here.

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.

Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

When you came knocking on the door this morning I was quite happy playing the guitar, for fun, I mean and not practicing and I’ll always be that way.

It’s my own stupid fault, as usual. I was in possession of class C drugs, which is an offence, and I have no complaints about the police, who were professional throughout.

Oh yeah – for sure – hardly a week doesn’t go by when I don’t hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred...

If it wasn’t good, I wouldn’t be going back out on tour.

I’m not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

Queen has taken the all of our time for last four or five years, you know.

That creates the magic, and that’s the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

I don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.

It was an unknown thing, a lot of people had very bad trips and I like to be in control.

I’m not anti-American. I’ve lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.

We know there’s no use in getting miserable, so we go out on the town instead!

We can all put weight on or lose weight.

But I’ve always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn’t particularly changed my lifestyle.

The master’s eye is the best fertilizer.

I’ve returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

You’re always frustrated, you don’t have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute....

It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me...

If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic...

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades...

I don’t regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I’m not a great player. I just like music. Drums ‘n’ bass is pretty exciting and I’d love to...

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

I was too shy to go and meet Princess Diana.

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

Ever since I became a Muslim, I’ve had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I...

But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old – apart from a few hits – is never played on radio to the young public ?

Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I was gone and kids used to walk past my front room, cause I lived on the green.

It’s my own stupid fault, as usual.

So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn’t sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped.

If they want a photograph, then just take it.

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

There are no Kleenex boxes on these loops, just so you know.

I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.

If your world doesn’t allow you to dream, move to one where you can.

I never did acid, I am just so high anyway.

I’ve never done anything so political before. I’ve spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.

I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head.

We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we’re very positive about the way we fight. At least we come out with a result.

But we actually has bought a house in America as well, which is mainly at the moment a holiday home.

Does anyone remember laughter?

The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.

I didn’t want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn’t like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I’m interested...

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on...

I genuinely don’t know how many albums I’m going to sell when the new album comes out, because I honestly don’t know how many fans I’ve actually got at the moment.