Mick Jagger Confirms: “There’s Nothing Good” About Getting Older

Recently, The Rolling Stones’ own Keith Richards shared his secret to longevity. (Sadly, it’s mostly just rest, and not, like, a magic elixir made of dirt and troll blood.) Now, bandmate Mick Jagger has decided to weigh in on mortality, and the swagger lord himself hasn’t enjoy getting older one bit. “There’s nothing good about it,” Jagger told New York Times’ The Interview podcast. “Nothing. You don’t get wisdom. You forget everything. Forgot all my wisdom.” Off the top of my head, I could think of lots of reasons why the 82-year-old Jagger might like being old: getting to fall asleep whenever/wherever you want; building a long canon of important work (The Stones just released their 25th album, Foreign Tongues); getting free stuff and preferential treatment (outside of being a rock god); and feeling as if you never have to impress a living soul ever again. But as Jagger further explained, none of that’s worth what he’s lost: “I might have had a couple of pearls, but I’ve forgotten what they are,” Jagger noted. “It’s not particularly pleasant and, of course, you can’t do things as quickly as you want to, and physically you can’t do things that you would like to do. You can still do...