The way that I work is that I try to work in metaphors, and you can't write a metaphor unless you know where you're going, so I always think about the future.

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.

Begin to grow in wisdom and develop an informed approach to more global issues around you and along your path to success and significance.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.

No book or expert can protect us from the range of painful emotions that make us human.

None of my friends call me L.C. That was just a high school nickname, and nobody refers to me like that anymore.

I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.

Only during the action is the idea of matter influenced.

I’m no longer human and there is no past.’ (Acheron's litany)

My fantasy for children's television is that it's not really children's television, it's everybody's television.

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?