Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

As far as current inspiration, I'm listenting to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used for flamenco can be adapted to playing bass.

I believe the best persona to be onstage is the one that comes naturally.

History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.

It is never easy for anyone to have success in music.

I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.

I'm very honored and thankful if someone says something nice about my playing, but in general I'm very critical of what I do.

I try to do my absolute best for the people who come see me play.

I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.

Hope-that unshakable golden belief that things can get better- is why I'm here talking to you now. Without it, we are nothing.

The doctor asked me recently how I was feeling within myself, I replied, “absolutely fine doctor, but I’m terribly lonely without myself.

Social change doesn’t happen overnight: It takes decades for momentum to build and for the once-radical edge to become mainstream.

I cannot walk into our garden without constantly being reminded of the friends who have shared their plants.

There are some conditions where you have to trust your intuition.

Romney is a good, intelligent, extraordinarily generous man who put on a great fight. But he didn't understand the country or the people he sought to lead, and that is why he lost.

If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself.

If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.

Owls are known as lonely birds; but it is not known that they have the forest as their best friend!

To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.