Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel.
I always got great respect as a bass player.
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.
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 revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it.
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.
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 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.
A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
Superstition is but the fear of belief.
The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.
I went to the Chicago Art Institute, which was the best painting school in the area at that time. And I took painting classes - basic elementary painting classes and drawing classes of all sorts.