I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.

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?

If I have nothing but life and books, I have everything.

Sometimes Midas suspected that life was a film with subliminal messages. Things would move along with an acceptable degree of predictability, then be punctuated by some horrible childhood memory.

Checked thoroughly, humans stink.

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.

I have a unique ability to mock everything. I'm a sponge by nature, thats what my environment made me.

I think naturally my orientation is from my father.

It's the job of the young to push the societal envelope.

Beginning with exercise, the best training program available for real results is circuit training.

There's also this weirdness to California, this darkness, it's a place where people come to follow their dreams and sometimes don't make it.

I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.