My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

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?

Love is the sweetest melody of the soul and anything can be catalyst for that.

We often focus on what is wrong and complain that nothing is beautiful.

If you look at any designer you admire, whose work inspires you, and whose approach somehow resonates with you, I promise you'll find a person who does not think of what they do as just their job

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.

I like how strong Sade is and how she doesn't give away too much.

Tonight, she went into the woods, and I fear she shall live in the woods of my soul for the rest of my days.

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