“He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day.”
“The question, then, was how long could a human being stay awake? Keith Richards could party for three days straight, but I wasn't sure if he counted as a human being.”
“Oh my God. I'm not Keith Richards. I'm Otis from Mayberry! A fucking drunk!”
“Some of us are so sharp," he [Mr. Vandemar] said as he leaned in closer to Richard, went up on tiptoes into Richard's face, "we could just cut ourselves.”
“To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart," Richards notes, "is a connection, a touching of bases. A thread that runs through all of us. A stab to the heart." Keith Richards from his autobiography”
“He had a face like a nutcracker; a scrawny man of no particular age, with merry secretive eyes.”