I'm not a musician, I just play bass.

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!

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.

Home is the place where when you have to go there They have to take you in.

Marriage is gonna be your stability through everything.

If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?

A man's main job is to protect his woman from her desire to 'get bangs' every other month.

The activity of being a husband, a father - those are roles, too, but underneath them is the spiritual center that connects us all, and that's what's most important.

Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way.

Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

Use your internal grandmother for guidance and advice.

You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.