Mick Jagger and Keith Richards still on a roll

Lauer: When you talk about the dynamic that exists between you two, and I watch you two sitting side by side — I think, Keith, you said something to the effect of, you guys like to antagonize each other.

Richards: Sometimes.

Jagger: But not too much.

Lauer: To get the blood flowing?

Richards: Yeah, but not flowing that much. Just to get it rising.

Jagger: You get to the point where you can go negative on that.

Lauer: Because it sounds like the married couple that fights so they can have great sex after they make up?

Richards: Could be.

Jagger: I don't remember.

Lauer: You think you would have remembered that.

Richards: You know it seems to work like that. Sometimes Mick's temperament is very different than mine. But when we start to work together, we suddenly seem to have the same.

Jagger: I think we're both very passionate about what we do. We have different ways of working — I think everyone does.

Richards: You're probably right there. I mean, if we didn't care, we'd just say, “Oh, just fling a couple of songs, throw them against the wall,” you know?

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Jagger says talk that this is some sort of farewell tour is simply not true. The Rolling Stones are taking it one tour at a time — promising to give each show all they’ve got.

Jagger: You go out there and put yourself on the line and you make sure you're as good as you can possibly be. You don't (expletive deleted) about, and you don't rest on your laurels. You just give the best show you can — even if you feel terrible, you've got a cold, your back's aching and all that crap. You do it because you are putting yourself on the line and those people have paid good money to see you, and you better be bloody good.

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