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.

My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

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

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

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 me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio.

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.

All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the written word better than I could.