Every rock'n'roll band I know, guys with long hair and tattoos, plays golf now.
As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
I see bands that have been around for a long time who go through the motions. They're tired and they shouldn't really be doing it any more. We are doing it because we like it.
I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something and then you stop and say, 'Wait, I think I've written that before.'
Rock and Roll does have its limits as far as the aging process. You want to go out there and play while you're at your peak, right? I think that's encouraging us to keep going out on the road - to maximize the playing at the moment.
I don't want to be 35 years old and still popping out songs in miniskirts and la-la-la.
Mick Jagger is 70 and still singing 'Satisfaction' every concert. That would drive me insane.
One of the things that's happened in the music I love over the past five, 10 years is that some people have gotten very old and continued to make music.
I want people to remember ABBA as we were. I don't think that four geriatrics wheeled on stage is what we should leave as our legacy.
I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65.
I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.
I would hope somebody out there will still want to hear a Backstreet Boys song when I'm 50-something.
I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.
After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.
I don't sing as well as I used to. Nor does anyone else in their 60s.
In country, you can grow old with your fans. You can still do shows when you're 70.
We have been called old rockers, rock pensioners, and dinosaurs.
Occasionally it can be a little disappointing to see rock gods in their 60s or 70s up on stage.
I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and... my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring.
I can't imagine being sixty years of age and playing music I wrote when I was in my twenties. I would rather sail the sea of consequence to new lands. Laps around the shallow end of the pool, not for me.
I mean, roots musicians - we can get old, you know? We can get up there and wear overalls and deliver the songs, we don't have to look any certain way.
Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.
The Stones can get out there and do it till they're old men. But certain groups are sad-looking to me.
As performers grow older, I reckon there are two ways they can go. They can either be up there, playing more deeply from their guts than ever, or they can be phoning it in so crassly that it leaves a lump in your throat as you leave the venue at the end of the show.
