Ron Wood Quotes

I love to go to Ireland just to relax.

In my family, they were all big boozers.

What can I say, I'm an alcoholic. It's what I do.

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.

Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much more supportive, which is nice.

I heard this massive thud. I spun around, and there Keith was, on the ground. He'd cut his gums up on impact, he was very bloody, and clutching his head. I think it was a kind of wake-up call for him.

When I first saw Jo, I said boom, that was it, because I'm a one-woman man.

I like it when journalists are nice to me, and it's happening more and more.

Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back.

They say you can smoke 400 cigs a day and drink 20 cups of coffee, but you can't have a line or a drink again.

I'm terrible with money, absolutely awful. I'm always losing it.

People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The other side is the same as the rest of us, a true rocker!

I just think my body can't handle it any more. I did try a little drink a while back, and I was actually physically ill. I went into an immediate depression, and felt awful, just dreadful. So that's it. I'm over it now.

My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.

I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends.

It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.

I'm a Gemini, so I have a great time with the other guy.

I've got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV. Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band.

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

You don't make solo albums to have hits.

We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.

Mick says, Would you join the band? I say to him, Mick, you know I'd be there in a New York minute.

With every gig we have to prove ourselves better than the night before.

I can't be left unsupervised.