You know, an earthquake, it's like incredibly physically damaging  but it's also psychologically damaging because all the laws that govern your life, all the ground beneath your feet, everything happening to you, is destroyed in those moments. And your whole psyche is upset. And then, of course, the tremendous physical damage because the buildings are so poorly constructed, as is typical in these kinds of places. So the damage is so huge. But I think one of the - it's very gratifying to see so much outpouring of help from every country... 

It's a beautiful country with very welcoming people, with fantastic culture, with wonderful music, with incredible dance, and a strange history. And it's a unique country and it's just very, very sad when you see this happening to somewhere where you've been, that you've enjoyed, where people have been welcoming, where people have been lovely to you. So it's always very, very sad to see this.

I don't have a  - what do you call it? - machine thing (computer)... I don't have a mobile phone, either... a) I don't need one. And b) I've got no interest, really. I mean, I must admit I'm a bit of a charlatan when it comes to the mobile, because I'll often say - to Mick, for example - "Can I borrow your phone?" But I don't actually possess one of my own. Nor does Keith, by the way, who doesn't use a telephone at all. Very rarely. He very rarely rings anyone. He faxes people. He writes the best faxes in the world, but he's not a telephone man.

The film tells the story of my life, the deal with the devil and all that. Johnny (Depp) is so damn easy to talk to, so it was no sweat.

It's the story so far, so to speak. James (Fox, the co-writer) has really put me down memory lane. It's weird, man, trying to remember everything, and then reliving it as the memory comes back. Like, Oh God, I gotta go through this thing twice!

Mick: I went back in the archives and dug out a load of things. I added some percussion and some vocals. Keith put guitar on one or two.

Keith: There wasn't much to be done and I really didn't want to get in the way of what was there. It was missing a bit of body here and there, and I stroked something on acoustic here and there. But otherwise, I really wanted to leave them pretty much as they were. Mick wanted to sort of fix some vocal things, but otherwise, basically they are as we left them 39 years ago... I didn't want to interfere with the bible... They still had that great basement sound.

Hey, you're asking me (if Mick wants to record another album)? You better ask Mick that one (laughs). But my feeling is that, generally, people get itchy at a certain time. I'm sort of waiting for a phone call, you know?

There's no definite plans, but I can't see any of them stopping. I wouldn't be surprised if we did something later this year. I don't know how the rest of them feel about roadwork at the moment. Maybe we'll search for a different way for the Stones to go back on the road. Maybe not the football stadiums anymore. Maybe something different. You can't go around there in lemon-yellow tights forever.

(Laughs) Listen, the rumors of my sobriety are greatly exaggerated. And we'll have to leave it at that.

Mick: (T)here are really great things on (the album). And I spent the last six months living with it, so I know it pretty much inside out now.... I can bore people at the breakfast table about what I had to do on it. I know a lot about it, and I kind of appreciate it more. I can see the difficulties easier, but I can also see that some of it was easy and simple to do... I could write my thesis on it, if necessary.

Charlie: It's just gone on a bit. I'm sure Mick's fed up with it, because he's not a great lover of yesterday.

(I)t's an ongoing relationship (between Mick and I). I just sent Charlie a note saying, Charlie, what's Mick doing? Should I put an available ad in Jazz News or something, like, Guitar player available? I feel a bit itchy, you know. It's been a couple years. There's something inside you that just starts to scratch.

There's no narrator. When we started talking about this with the director, I discussed with him, and he totally wanted to do the same thing, is that I wanted the audience to feel that they were in 1972. I didn't want them to feel that it was me and Keith sitting in armchairs, saying - showing the guitars (the songs) were played on. I've seen many of those documentaries, it's sort of a formula. So I said, I want the viewer to feel like he's there, that he or she is in that time frame as much as possible. So we used, in the end, it must have been 90% of  footage from then and a tiny bit from now. And the way those two sorts of things fit together makes it - you do kind of get the vibe of the time.

Keith: I don't know, I'm going to hopefully find out soon, I'm going to be seeing Mick next week or something, so I'm going to try and screw some information out of him. You've got to have everybody want to do it, so I usually wait for a call from Mick saying, Let's make something, let's do something, because without his actual "want to do it", then there's not much point. But I'm always working, I've got ideas for stuff, but I haven't put them together yet with Mick.... (B)ut I don't think (we'll tour) this year, not that I've heard. The suggestion is that there would be a record on instead.

Mick: I don't know what the future of the Rolling Stones (is). Very good, I should think. And we look forward to doing more concerts. Yeah, I'm sure we will.

I think the Stones are very lucky. You always need a lot of luck. And I think they were in the right place at the right time. (Also) when we work, we work very hard. You need all those things. There's no good just being hard-working because lots of people are hard-working. But you've got to be hard-working, on your game and be lucky. Staying there... requires a certain, you know, tactics. It's like being a football (soccer) player or something, you know. If you're going to last, you've got to play a bit clever.

(My drug conviction) was a long time ago... Every time I come to the United States I still have to sort of go to the special place... Even though it's 40-something years ago. The marijuana conviction, yes. I have to go into a room... You can't go through - you know the immigration line? So sometimes if there is someone that knows something about how to deal with it, they can do it. But normally I have to go to a special room.

We were young, good-looking and stupid then. Now we're just stupid.

I've done 60 days of clean and serene and I can't see any way of stopping. I'm doing 90 meetings in 90 days. I do a meeting every day. It's a helluva bloody thing. I go from Surrey all over London - I just go to NA or AA and just keep it going.

The Stones are great about The Faces. They are encouraging. In the downtime between the Stones' activity, you might as well do something constructive and keep the chops going.

We have all agreed th(e next tour) won't be the last time. Everyone's rocking.

We're having discussions for the moment. We're telling ourselves that, if we do something, it'll be next year or in two years. We're getting at an age where you can't project yourself too far into the future. Celebrating our 50 years onstage would be incredible... With the Stones, it's like the army, I stay ready. We'll start up when Mick and Keith get bored. For the moment, I'm waiting. Keith should release his autobiography soon. It should be funny. But, you know, it doesn't interest me to read the Rolling Stones' history. I'm already in it!

It was a last-minute thing. I had no idea I was going. It was a bit like being at a lecture, but I got to hang out with Bill afterwards, which was cool. He gave me a hug and said I want your new album and then he said I've got your paintings up in my house, in my office, and I told him, You've got some more coming. I really like him. He's a really down-to-earth guy and I think he's the best president they've had since Kennedy. He's the most popular at least.