Quotes from Keith Richards

I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.

The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing...

It's really good to be here and as I always say, it's really good to be anywhere!

True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other

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

But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know this feeling?

I don't regret nuthin...

Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money

And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.

Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.

My life is full of broken halos.

I firmly believe if you want to be a guitar player, you better start on acoustic and then graduate to electric. Don't think you're going to be Townshend or Hendrix just because you can go wee wee wah wah, and all the electronic tricks of the trade. First you've got to know that fucker. And you go to bed with it. If there's no babe around, you sleep with it. She's just the right shape.

John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.

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

Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience

The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opponent. While he stares at the gleaming steel, you kick his balls to kingdom come--he's all yours. Just a tip!

A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid.

Well, I'm not putting death on the agenda. I don't want to see my old friend Lucifer just yet. He's the guy I'm gonna see, isn't it? I'm not going to the Other Place, let's face it.

The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

I have no idea what the audience makes of me.