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?

I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.

You don't want to get pigeon-holed. So, I always get attracted to parts that are different from the previous ones I've played.

Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.

I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

I wonder love can have already set In dreams, when we've not met More times than I can number on one hand.

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.