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.

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.

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.

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.

The height of your success will be measured with reference to the depth from which you started.

Stop the pity party! Your sorrow is full and complete when you go through unfortunate circumstances and decide to mourn for life as a result of the unexpected.

If this is a smart world then I want to be stupid.

The traditional ways to make a film, the traditional ways to share a film, have all collapsed. There are no gatekeepers, per se, any more, and anything can be done. Truly, I feel that.

When the legs go, the heart soon follows

I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.

I don't like to see anybody hurt or suffer, especially children.

It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the million that they don't have to make their film.

I always sympathized with the people who did work for hire; I was one of them.

You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.