My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

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.

Laugh and the world laughs with you.Fart and you're on your own.

There are those who have nothing chaste but their ears and nothing virtuous but their tongues.

What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.

If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Everybody is clever, just in their own ways

Never give up the ganja.

I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.

I am not Pele or Maradona

Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze.