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• I thought it was ludicrous to take one of those gongs from the establishment...it's not what the Stones is about, is it? I don't want to step out on stage with someone wearing a fucking coronet and sporting the old ermine. I told Mick, It's a fucking paltry honour.
  • Commenting on Mick Jagger receiving a Knighthood in 2003, reported in In quotes: Keith Richards, BBC (April 4, 2007).

• There are certain guys that are band players and there's certain guys that ain't. If there's anybody lazier than me, it's Eric (Clapton).
  • Mojo magazinehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6526133.stm

• I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
  • He tells Rolling Stone of his drug-taking past.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6526133.stm

• I thought rock and roll was an unassailable outlet for some pure and natural expression of rebellion. It used to be one channel you could take without ever havin' to kiss arse, you know?
  • Rolling Stonehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6526133.stm

• I was number one on the Who's Likely To Die list for 10 years. I mean, I was really disappointed when I fell off the list.
  • NMEhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6526133.stm

• The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
  • BBC Newsnight 2005http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6526133.stm

• I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
  • Interview 2006http://youtube.com/watch?v=ohEz13V1Vhk&feature=related

About Keith Richards

• New Rule: Airplane black boxes must now be made out of Keith Richards. The man, who has taken more drugs than Whitney Houston, Rush Limbaugh and Robert Downey, Jr., combined, recently fell out of a tree, and then crashed a jet ski. And yet, somehow, that cigarette never fell out of his mouth. What is this guy still running on? I've got to know. Because I'm beginning to think the future of medicine isn't injecting stem cells, it's injecting heroin.
  • Real Time with Bill Maher, 12 May 2006 (Season 7, Episode 9)

• ...how come Keith Richards still walks? Explain that Mr. Surgeon General! You never mention Keith do you? Aah, a little hole in the theory there! Surgeon General says "Drugs are bad, drugs are evil!...except for that guy, they work real good for him, -but the rest of you...
• Keith Richards is shooting heroin into his eyeballs and still touring all right! I'm getting mixed signals! I picture nuclear war and two things surviving: Keith and cockroaches! (does Keith Richards impression) "Where did everybody go-o? I saw a bright light and thought we were on ..."
  • Bill Hicks, 'Dangerous' audio 1990

• I was reading an interview with Keith Richards in a magazine and in the interview Keith Richards intimated that kids should not do drugs. Keith Richards! Says that kids should not do drugs! Keith, we can't do any more drugs because you already fucking did them all, alright! There's none left! We have to wait 'till you die and smoke your ashes! Jesus Christ! Talk about the pot and the fuckin' kettle.
  • Dennis Leary, No Cure for Cancer 1992.