With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far.

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

I can't stand rap....people who can't sing do rap....you can sing rebellion as well as talk it....Hitler would have been in a rap band.

We have nine hungry Rottweilers on the farm.

I ain't quiet.. everybody else is too loud.

I'm only interested in heavy metal when it's me who's playing it. I suppose it's a bit like smelling your own farts.

I have got an anthology album out. The American version has got the same mixes but the European version, I remixed them in the studio and added a couple of things that I have always wanted to add.

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

The Netherlands are wet, flat and full of stoned people.

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.

I deep sea fish a lot.

Just because you felt like a failure in the past, doesn't mean you can't get back up again and make something better of your future.

Nature's my muse and it's been my passion.

I got started at a really young age. I was about two years old when I started playing the piano and around seven or eight when I started writing my own chords and putting words together.

There is definitely a sense of pride to it - it's more precious when you cook something up from the beginning and you see it all the way to the end, and you get a little bit more of a say.

Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.

God doesn't tell us to care for the less fortunate, He demands it.

The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook.

Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.

A social contract is the way out of this dilemma for corporations that want to lead in the 21st century by showing consumers how seriously they take customer loyalty and goodwill.

I've never been good at sharing my toys.