Quotes from Mick Jagger

I can't get no satisfaction.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.

Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live, and some literature talent. I love how he invented himself.

It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.

I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture.

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.

He stole my music but he gave me my name.

The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.

A good thing never ends.

I like to have a peek, see what the audience is doing during the opening act, because it gives you a clue and gives you a good feeling of where you are - the air can be different in different places.

I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.

Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered, and you just must let your imagination run.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.

When you start a new project, no matter if it's a movie like Enigma or an album like Goddess, you are always learning something. While I search, I find something new.

I've managed to avoid tattoos so far.

Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.

The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.

I don't want to be a rock star all my life. I couldn't bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags.