Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?

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

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

And although it might be best of all to be Socrates satisfied, having both happiness and depth, we would give up some happiness in order to gain the depth.

Loving-kindness challenges those states that tend to arise when we think of ourselves as isolated from everyone else—fear, a sense of deficiency, alienation, loneliness.

If you aren't outraged, then you just aren't paying attention

I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.

All that stuff with the tabloids is a kind of luxury tax I pay for all the good things I do in my life.

Introducing 'Lite': the new way to spell 'Light'; but with twenty per cent fewer letters.

The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.