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 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.

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?

I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.

This is how women are trained to stay indoors, she thought, the idea echoing in her mind like a gravesong. This is how women are trained not to act.

There are roads where people go, and where they should arrive is their mission.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -- Stella Adler

There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange songs but she is not kind.

I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.

The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence.

We must at last put a stop to having people move into their quarters like chickens and rabbits into their coops.

You know what the ideal dove gun for any given day is? Your other-the one you left at home.

Without raising human consciousness, whatever we do in the world will only lead to more and more suffering.

You're a doer, because you're prepared to make the necessary effort to translate your dream into action.