I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.

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?

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Life is easier when you don't carry baggage from the past.

Make sure that your kids or the kids in your life have an opportunity to share their ideas, and to teach you something about what we know.

I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.

There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually rotted away.

The more a prospective customer clicks on you and your stuff, the easier it is for them to make a buying decision in your favor.

I don't get pictures taken of me when I leave clubs.

The religion of Islam brings out of the individual all of his dormant potential.

You can change. You can 'come unto Christ, and be perfected in him.'

I think the Justice Department needs to be the final protector of the people of the United States of America.