Never in my career have I got the support for what I'm doing, any more than I have on Fringe.

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.

We should learn to smile as we fall, So much so as when we have it all.

Estragon: They're too bigVladimir: Perhaps you'll have socks some day

Vote for the man who promises least he'll be the least disappointing.

I really liked Deadheads and the whole Dead concert scene: the tailgating, the tie-dye uniforms, the camaraderie it was like NASCAR for potheads.

Oh sharp diamond, my mother! I could not count the cost of all your faces, your moods that present that I lost. Sweet girl, my deathbed, my jewel-fingered lady...

Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.

Power is a neutral energy source, like tofu. It's what you do with it that gives it flavor.

There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.

Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague; where we are now in debt, let us get out of debt; if not today...tomorrow.

Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.