Quotes About Keith Richards

It takes some going to live next door to Keith Richards and be classed as the rowdy neighbor. No, I'm not proud.

You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!

Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.

He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day.

Songwriting's a weird game. I never intended to become one - I fell into this by mistake, and I can't get out of it. It fascinates me. I like to point out the rawer points of life.

I'm not sure you can count as history, was Keith Richards's "Life," which he so modestly titled it. I did find it a fascinating book. Keith's a pretty honest fellow.

In his own words, Richards embraces the notion of life as a wild animal, and his legendary close shaves have left him with a unique take on existence. Yet somehow, Keith Richards's implacably rock 'n roll worldview has something to offer al of us ...

I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks - and Keith Richards has been one of the main contributors to my inspirational playing.

I'm militantly anti-drug abuse but love everything Keith Richards and some other drug goofballs do.

Even though everybody knows that when you light up a cigarette God takes an hour off your life and gives it to Keith Richards.

We've never been, really, singers or performers. We are a little bit but we are not like Mick Jagger or Keith Richards or anyone like that.

I'd worked on music docs for years. It felt like writing a novel. By the time I got to Keith Richards, it felt like making a sketch.

I would love to embody the attitude of Iggy Pop or Keith Richards: a ballsy mentality. Stylistically, I love Vivienne Westwood - those capes! I'm obsessed.

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.

When I grew up, I had influences as diverse as Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix.

I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.

Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.

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.

I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?

It was decreed that we should leave French territory until I was "allowed back," but I had to keep renting Nellcôte as some kind of bond, at $2,400 a week.

Spiderwoman stepped forward and said, "Oh, do give us a hint, just give us a glimmer." Mick turned to me and said, "We're the Glimmer Twins." Baptized on the equator, the Glimmer Twins is the name we used later for ourselves as producers of our own records.

We heard later that Gram was clean when he went overboard. He took a normal-sized dose. "Oh, just one..." But cold turkey had already wiped out his body's resilience against it, and boom. There's that fatal mistake with junkies.

The power of the teenage females of thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, when they're in a gang, has never left me. They nearly killed me. I was never more in fear for my life than I was from teenage girls. The

I once had a mynah bird, and it wasn't a pleasant experience. When I put music on, it would start yelling at me. It was like living with an ancient, fractious aunt. The fucker was never grateful for anything.