The Rolling Stones 63 year old lead guitarist doesn’t think he’ll kick off until he’s 150.

“Hey, when I’m gone, I’m done. Everybody else can decide what to do with me. My folks know what’s what. Mind you, it’s a long way off. I’m looking to be a good 150 before I think about croaking.”

Honestly I think he’s got as good a shot as anybody at making his mark. With the pure lifestyle he’s lead he should give some serious consideration to marrying Lindsay Lohan or Paris Hilton; they’re the only two with even the slightest chance at sticking around as long as he will. Only potential problem is the Valtrex might interfere with his blood pressure and erectile dysfunction meds.

More Keith Richards news below the fold.

update: There’s good news on the news that Keith Richards cut his dad’s ashes with Cocaine and then snorted them. He left out the coke.

Richards promptly released a statement addressing the comment, claiming he was only joking about inhaling the ashes of his dead dad Bert with the illegal drug.

But the 63-year-old has admitted there was some truth to the story.

He says, “The cocaine bit was rubbish (not true). I said I chopped him up like cocaine, not with. I’d opened his box up and said, ‘Jesus, I’ve got to do something with dad, y’know, plant the oak tree.’

“I pulled the lid off and out comes a bit of dad on the dining room table. I’m going, ‘I can’t use the brush and dustpan for this’. So you just gotta like, put it together.

“What I found out is that ingesting your ancestors is a very respectable way of… y’know, he went down a treat.”

Kind of a waste if you ask me.

They’d have gone much better with some fava beans with a nice Chianti*.

Update #2: (What the hell is it Keith Richards day?) Since Keith is obviously suffering an extreme monetary shortage he’s inked a deal reportedly worth $7 million to write an autobiography.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has signed a deal reportedly worth more than $7 million to write his autobiography, a tome that will trace his trek from cherubic choirboy to rock ‘n’ roll survivor.
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The memoir will hit stores in the fall of 2010, said New York-based publisher Little, Brown and Co., which partnered with Britain’s Weidenfeld & Nicolson to secure worldwide English-language rights.

Media reports said on Tuesday a bidding war pushed the price above $7 million, a hefty sum given that music-based books are traditionally not big sellers. Legendary guitarist Eric Clapton reportedly received a $5 million advance for his upcoming memoir.

Richards, 63, will collaborate on the book with James Fox, author of the 1982 murder mystery “White Mischief.” The Stones guitarist becomes only the second member of the venerable band to write his memoir, following former bassist Bill Wyman, who wrote “Stone Alone” in 1990. Singer Mick Jagger started to write an autobiography, but soon got bored and abandoned the idea.

Good thing he’s teamed up with someone to help write it. I’m not sure how many finger paintings and crayon drawings it would take to be worth $7 million, but I’m sure he wouldn’t have time to get them done by the 2010 release date.