Time & Perspective Quote by Ron Wood

Ron Wood’s line lands because it treats astrology like a backstage pass to self-contradiction: not a cosmic diagnosis, but a playful alibi. “I’m a Gemini” is shorthand for a well-worn pop idea - duality, split selves, the charming mess of being two things at once. Then he swerves: “so I have a great time with the other guy.” That’s the real punch. Instead of confessing inner conflict, he frames it as camaraderie. The “other guy” isn’t a demon to wrestle; he’s a mate you can drink with.

Coming from a musician - and not just any musician, but a Rolling Stones lifer whose public persona has always flirted with excess, reinvention, and survival - the joke doubles as brand maintenance. Rock mythology rewards the image of the unruly self: the man who can be tender one minute and feral the next, unreliable but magnetic. Astrology offers a culturally acceptable language for that complexity without the heavy cost of therapy-speak or moral accounting. It’s a wink that says: I contain multitudes, don’t audit me.

The subtext is both evasive and honest. Evasive because it sidesteps responsibility by blaming the stars; honest because it admits the performance of identity. Wood isn’t claiming to be divided. He’s claiming to enjoy the division - and in pop culture, that pleasure is often the whole job.