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.

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.

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

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

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.

Nature releases resistance sometimes slowly, other times powerfully, and always by example. Suddenly out of that calm comes momentum from a new direction.

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.

...when she wakes up, there is silence, as though the day has held its breath.

I can be seen as not being very communicative, or rather mysterious, or distant, or rather cold - all those things. Yeah, I know I can give off that impression. So I am that, too.

Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

I've always been pretty happy with my style. I've been wearing tapered jeans since 1980 something.

Fast Food Nation was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food.

It is an utter shame to spend millions on the sanctuaries while millions are dying of hunger! Institutional religion must go to Hell even only for this infamy!

Saturn doesn’t ask us to give up our dreams, only to make them real.

Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.