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.

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

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.

To me my biggest fear is getting a big head and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.

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

It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.

I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones but on a general level no I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.

Good music comes out of people playing together knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can’t do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

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.

And it was a very very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very very friendly.