If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

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?

The most satisfying of languages, Latin.

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.

Whatever I've got going on, I play music to accompany me.

What joy the gospel gives me! I can approach the throne of God with confidence-not because I've done a good job at my spiritual duties, but because I'm clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart.

Christian Deodorant: "Thou Shalt Not Smell"

No one has failed who keeps trying and keeps praying.

Simplicity is an enduring habit within a soul that has grown impervious to evil thoughts.

The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends.

The poem might come to you as you're preparing to teach a lecture, right? And when you say, "no" to that occasion, that poem is gone.