You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

- Keith Richards

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

- Keith Richards

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

- Keith Richards

Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.

- Keith Richards

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

- Keith Richards

Songwriting's a weird game.

- Keith Richards

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.

- Keith Richards

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

- Keith Richards

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

- Keith Richards

To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.

- Keith Richards

I have no idea what the audience makes of me.

- Keith Richards

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

- Keith Richards

I only get ill when I give up drugs.

- Keith Richards

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

- Keith Richards

The Beatles were basically a vocal band.

- Keith Richards

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

- Keith Richards

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

- Keith Richards

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

- Keith Richards

It's good to be anywhere.

- Keith Richards

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

- Keith Richards