It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.

I can't be left unsupervised.

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The other side is the same as the rest of us, a true rocker!

I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'

When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.

When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin art collectors and everything!

Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.

All of us can't wait to get out there whatever way.

Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much more supportive, which is nice.

With every gig we have to prove ourselves better than the night before.

I don't believe in worrying. It's a waste of energy.

When i move through my pain, it clears the path for a new dawn, a new day. It is in these moments, i feel the sun rising on the horizon of hope, in my soul.

Years later Lazar would recall questioning his mother as to who the people who shared his meals were. "Some are our relations, " was the response, "But all of them are our people.

I always saw candy as art.

People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.

I have to stop watching the Olympics. It just reminds me that I forgot to try really hard at something.

I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people.

If you can conceive something in your mind and believe it to be true, then you can achieve it.

I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life...I dream too much, work too little.

Friends may come and go, but barbecues accumulate.