Quotes from Keith Richards

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.

We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.

My life is full of broken halos.

I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.

You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.

Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.

The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

What is life but playing with time?

To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

I've got nothing against daylight. I don't live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.

It's called the mysterious rhythm of life, ... I can't quite account for it. It's probably an addiction, quite honestly. I need that shot of stage every two or three years.

I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.

It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.

Hey, we just enjoy it. I think we think we're getting the hang of this thing, you know?

I only get ill when I give up drugs.

Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners.

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.