Mick Jagger

“Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.”

“I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.”

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

“The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.”

“I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.”

“I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?”

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

“My secrets must be poetic to be believable.”

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

“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 have a lot of songs, and I'd love to do some more recording with the band.”

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

“A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.”

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

“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've managed to avoid tattoos so far.”

“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.”

“People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.”

“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.”

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