[One: They still like it. In the 2003 book] According to the Rolling Stones, ... There is still a feeling that there is more for us to do, and that this is no time to get off the bus, because the feeling of desolation of getting off the bus and watching it carry on careening down the road would be more than any of us could bear. |
[While Richards says he might not have written the song himself, Jagger felt strongly about it.] I find politics a pretty pallid subject for songs in general, ... I've only done it a few times, like in 'Street Fighting Man' or 'Sweet Black Angel.' |
All of that has made us patriarchs. |
And also, she's just woke up and we're going to sleep, |
Are you the first Patti Smith groupie? |
As Charlie put it, 'One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab', |
Ask [former Jagger girlfriend] Marianne Faithfull , |
Every other tour, you've known that you're going to start there and its gonna finish there and it does. But this tour ... we're not finished yet, you know? |
Everything goes in slow motion at those times. And the desk is coming for my temple. I shove that out the way and I say, 'I know I'm going to take it somewhere.' And I never did find the book. |
Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get. |
He's always been a good, smooth acoustic player, but the electric seemed like an untamed beast for him until this year. |
He's been working on his electric guitar since we've been off the road, ... He's always been a great acoustic player, but the electric always seemed to run out of his hands. Now, I think he finally tamed the beast. |
Hey, Bernie, if ya hadn't come into me bedroom and did what ya did to me, mate, I wouldn't have decided to turn me life around the way I did as a result of it, and it's why I'm still alive today. |
Hey, we just enjoy it. I think we think we're getting the hang of this thing, you know? |
I broke three, actually. And punctured a lung. And it's a ludicrous story, really. |