Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.

I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.

I always got great respect as a bass player.

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.

I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.

I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.

You could put Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley on one side of the stage, and James Brown on the other, and you wouldn't even notice the others were there!

I'm not a musician, I just play bass.

But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?

The joy of reading is sacred pleasure.

What will a man gain by winning the whole world, at the cost of his true self?

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.

They're hangin' Danny Deever in the morning!

Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.

Nobody said democracies supposed to be easy. It's hard. And in a big country like America, it probably should be hard.

The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community.

Feare, the Bedle of the Law.

We are called to reflect the Lord's beauty through our lives as much as through our words, and God will use this in His own perfect time.

Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind...what we sow is what we reap.