I don’t do live things.

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster’s paradise.

We will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice’s life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.

When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.

I’ve never got on with the British press because they’ve always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn’t concentrate on the...

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I’ll just record it there and then.

I’ve just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover.

I can never remember what I do even in the studio.

When you’re around someone good, your own standards are raised.

I was the first guy to join the band with Hendrix.

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

I haven’t really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment.

I’m a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever.

A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

Well, I made fun of the people in the government and then realized that even if we got rid of them, they were replaced by exactly the same guys.

I like leaping around on stage as long as it’s done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits.

I did loads of sessions with Andrew Oldham.

It’s up to people like us, all of us, to address and talk about things like runaway global warming and how we can use things like remote viewing to save our planet.

There were times when Jimi showed me little licks but there again I showed him licks as well, on his songs, which I never got credit for.

On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.

We’re both devastated. We’ve actually been in shock for the last few days since Maurice was taken ill, and so this has all gone too fast for us.

I can’t do all that riddly diddly stuff. I’m not good enough. It’s all about not playing.

Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.

I’m the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there’s a few more albums in us.

I don’t want to live on past records.

Somebody said to me this morning, ‘To what do you attribute your longevity?’ I don’t know. I mean, I couldn’t have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse...

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They’re always going out of tune.

You sit there waiting for the RED LIGHT to go on. You could be sitting there for five minutes, waiting, while the producer talks to the engineer. Then the light goes on you know that...

I don’t know how many thoughts we have a second, but it’s quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a...

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I’ve already done.

With Maurice suddenly going, I realised… I think I’ve matured. I don’t take things lightly any more.

In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I’m nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It’s...

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn’t feel like it’s about me. Time created a distance.

I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won’t do a thing for me, if he’s not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck’s great to listen to.

When you’re recording, if you’re not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.

I wouldn’t know how I would have coped with The Beatles’ sort of fame.

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.

I don’t take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It’s made me wonder about mortality and how long you’ve got somebody in the world. I’m more fearful than I used to be.

I think another thing is that we don’t really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist’s interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

The band has always stayed close to its fans and not sold out. That’s a very rare thing. I can see how rare that is having been outside of the band for eight years. Maiden...

As long as you’re having fun, that’s the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it’s over.

I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes...

I’m not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

I didn’t even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago.

Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can’t make a decent human being out of you.

We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot.

People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.

In the beginning, Barry and I couldn’t decide if we were going got go forward with the name of the Bee Gees or just as Barry and Robin. Now we’ve decided to continue as the...