I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of 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 decide word is so powerful. It's amazing what you can do once you decide to do it.

That was what it felt like - as if one had always been in that place and never been bored although nothing had ever happened.

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen so are all innovations which are the births of time.

David Levi is a teacher as well as a chef, and, like most teachers, he loves to talk.

I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.

Virginity is something that can be offered to God.

It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart?

I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.

Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.