Quotes By Keith Richards

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

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

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

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

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.

It's good to be anywhere.

When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it.

There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.

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

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

I have no idea what the audience makes of me.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

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 never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

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

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

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

I only get ill when I give up drugs.

When you're supported by millions all over the world, you can either go nuts, or try to feed off the goodwill.

I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.

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

You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.

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.

Songwriting's a weird game.

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

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.

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

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