Keith Richards Quotes

"You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions." - on news that The Rolling Stones had earned £1.23 billion since 1989

"You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!" - Joking about the length of the Rolling Stones' career

"See you in seven years." - to then-girlfriend Anita Pallenberg just before being arrested for possession of heroin and cocaine in Toronto, 1977.

"Cold turkey is not so bad after you've done it ten or twelve times."

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

On the death of original Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones: "Although it was a shock when it actually happened, nobody was really that surprised, you know. I'm sure everybody's got a feeling about certain people... everybody knows people that-- you just have that feeling about them, they're not going to be 70 years old, ever. Not everybody makes it."