Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jaggeris an English singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead singer and a co-founder of the Rolling Stones...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth26 July 1943
CityDartford, England
people addiction understanding
I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.
country thinking tongue
I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.
country roots way
Country music... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak.
sex drinking believe
It's hard to believe that you did so many drugs for so long. That's what I find really hard. And didn't really consider it. It was eating and drinking and taking drugs and having sex. It was just part of life.
rocks dying world
I don't know if rock is dying. I wouldn't want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
girlfriend bad-relationship good-relationship
I was having a bit of trouble. I wasn't in a good relationship. Or I was in too many bad relationships. I had so many girlfriends at that point. None of them seemed to care they weren't pleasing me very much. I was obviously in with the wrong group.
behavior shocked narrow-mindedness
Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
song writing piano
Writing a song is like - you're writing a song all the time. It's just when it pops out. It's been there all the time. It's not something that suddenly you do it. It's always there. Suddenly, it's in the right mixture inside you to come out. Usually when you're writing on the piano or a guitar, you don't write in lyrics, on their own. To me it's very boring.
girl boys rocks
Boys were a very essential part of rock & roll. The girls were more onlookers.
thinking winning want
Everyone in the movie industry wants to win an Oscar. I don't think that's why you make movies. But winning an Oscar is not just about making a great movie, unfortunately. It's also having a good Oscar campaign.
thinking drug want
Taking drugs on a recreation level is one thing. But taking them while you're working on a stage is, I don't think it was that great. It's the control factor. And the thing about being on stage, you really want to feel that you're sort of in control a lot. It's not a place where you want to be out of control.
furniture
I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture.
mean worry mind
I don't really mind criticism in music or in shows and stuff like that at all. I mean, it doesn't really worry me even if it's like out of place. At least it's relevant.
thinking rocks people
The music's rehearsed a lot. All people think about is, they think, in rock 'n' roll, they get the music off right and they think it's okay standing, looking macho. Well, it's not. That's boring. If you want to be a performer you've got to do a lot more work than that.