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.

I’d make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

I guess when Rick is finished with his Journey to the Centre of the Earth, then we might have a go at something. We’d like to, we’re open to it, and we’ve been talking about...

I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a basic 12-bar blues song was very important.

I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the songs we ended up doing on our first album.

You can’t give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside – so be it. But at least you know you’ve tried. Ten minutes in the music scene...

When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah.

I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.

Yeah, I wanted to know where they got it from, what it was all about, you know, and it seemed to strike something in me that was you know rearing it’s head and I still...

It’s absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don’t want to emulate that.

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn’t fit with expectation – I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

If we didn’t do the tour, it would have been disastrous.

There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little...

The band was rejuvenated by that wonderful day. It breathed new life into us.

Maintaining our standard; that’s our challenge day-in and day-out.

The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.

I rocked the cradle of love.

The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.

It’s important to me that I should be free to express myself.

I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!

We set the stage worldwide to go into the new millenium. I have all the music. Carl Palmer loves the music, he wants to play it.

Four personalities are bound to clash.

My vocal style I haven’t tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.

Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.

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.