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

“You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.”

“The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.”

“Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.”

“Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'”

“You should not think on a small scale”

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”

“It doesn't sound that cool to say it, but I still get nervous for any show. But it's different degrees - playing a small basement of a club versus playing a festival like Firefly or Bonnaroo. The f...”

“Not everything needs to be said. The silences, the words that arent spoken, lead us to the questions we should be asking.”

“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.”

“Why do I always have so many fucking questions in my head?”