I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasnt.

When I heard BB Kings Sweet Sixteen, I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player.

Im the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. Thats the way my mother raised me.

I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him.

Most of my school friends and even a few of my teachers called me Duck.

Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with them.

When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.

Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass.

I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.

I'm the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.

In the middle of all the ordinary--something extraordinary shows up.

If you want to leave your footprints on the sands of time, be sure you’re wearing work shoes.

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

The mind confines our outlooks to a mere bundles of desires, pleasures, prejudices, and fears to safeguard the body it inhabits.

Such is the lot of the narcissist's child, to inherit her parent's umbrage over the world's indifference.

The voice of one crying in the wilderness.

Defeat is most devastating at the moment of victory" Saint Dane

Nah, I don't watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don't have the time.

Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.

When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.