Quotes from Mick Jagger

I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.

People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on.

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

I'm very much against the secondary ticket market. I don't know anyone who isn't.

Time is on my side, yes it is.

It's like everyone I have dinner with, I'm having an affair with. Who was it I met the other day? Minnie Driver! She seems charming, but that's the only time I've met her.

I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.

I think that people taking drugs occasionally are great. I think there's nothing wrong with it. But if you do it the whole time, you don't produce as good things as you could.

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

Have I turned into a motorized preacher? We spend so much time in cars that if you don't try to get some experiences out of it, you can go crazy.

I don't want to be my extravert self all the time.

The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.

I really don't see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I've been involved in film for quite a long time and I just like doing film.

I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it.

You've got to have fresh wardrobe. You can't just go out there looking like you did last time. That helps your transformation.

The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

I love America, but I can't spend the whole year here. I can't afford the taxes.