You don't know what's coming for you in life, and you don't know what's around the corner. When you're in a great deal of pain, you're only imagining your world the way it is.

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.

No two person, ever read the same book.

Your face expresses a simple majesty, Your look is that of a captive princess, Your lips have a slight smile andThis shows your glory of being a woman.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

I have a huge political interest. I just wish I had the courage to come into politics in India.

Innovation needs to be nurtured throughout an organization. Management is doing things right, whereas leadership is doing the right things.

You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.

There is what we desire to do, and what we are able to do. When those two things don't coincide, which path should we pursue to find happiness?

My job is to express who I am and what I hate about the country and what I love about it and what I hate about myself and what I love about myself and to make you laugh while I'm doing it.

The giant wave of the science has no mercy; when this colossal wave comes, it will sweep away anything untrue!

Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.