Keith Richards Part 2

I've just finished reading Keith Richards' "Life".  It's like saying goodbye to a friend I've never met.  Here are some more quotes.

Pg. 468 On songwriting with Mick  "We always come up with something when we're together.  There's an electric spark between us.  There always has been.  That's what we look forward to and that's what helps turn folks on."

Pg. 491  "The grind is never the stage performance.  Once we're up there doing it, it's sheer fun and joy."

Pg. 491   "The only way I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from an audience. That's my fuel."

Pg. 491, 491    "All I've got is this burning energy, especially when I've got a guitar in my hands.  I get an incredible raging glee when they get out their seats.  Yeah, come on, let it go.  Give me some energy and I'll give back double.  It's almost like some enormous dynamo or generator.  It's indescribable....If the place was empty I wouldn't be able to do it...It's like sitting on top of a rocket."

Pg. 522  "Aside from poaching, which I haven't done since then, I lead a gentleman's life.  Listen to Mozart, read many, many books....I've always got some historical work on the go."

Pg. 546  "But I'm not here just to make records and money.  I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation. "Do you know this feeling?" "