It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it.

When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.

I love those Keith Richards solo records, but it's not the Rolling Stones.