The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that..

I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography..

I can't really sing and play live, because I can't play bass efficiently and sing at the same time. If I concentrated on the vocals, I'd mess up the ….

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do al….

I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography..

Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to….

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 ev….

My first record I owned was by Les Paul..

When I record in a studio I don't use an amp. I go directly into the board, so I can get that very fat, full sound - which is my favorite sound..

The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could..

I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings..

I always got great respect as a bass player..

I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all th….

I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on..

It's all right leaping about the stage when you're 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing.

Everything had to be done in-between Stones time..

I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project..

You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, wher….

You never know what your next dig is going to find..

Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. Y….

Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've always had. It suits ….