Jagger: "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."

Jagger: "It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back."

Jagger: "My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer."

Jagger: "I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted."

Jagger: "A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day."

Jagger: "The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times."

Jagger: "As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen."

Jagger: "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."

Jagger: "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing."

Jagger: "People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable."

Jagger: "I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?"

Jagger: "I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way."

Jagger: "Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope."

Jagger: "Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts."

Jagger: "I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression."

Jagger: "We have a lot of secondary market problems in the U.K.; it's really bad there. And lots of artists are starting to participate in it, because they put the tickets up at a certain price, then the tickets get marked up by the secondary sellers, and someone else gets twice as much as you."

Jagger: "People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten."