I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool.

True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

You don't find a style. A style finds you

The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Don’t listen to them—listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen.

Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of "constructing" these truths, in the process of deciding what to do.

I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.

Cost Accounting is enemy number one of productivity.

We do not have homosexuals in Iran like you do [in America].

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read.

I'm going to crush my competition and I'm going to enjoy doing it.

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

Behind you swiftly the figure comes softly, The spot on your skin is a shocking disease.