I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

Being able to allow people to be who they are without trying to change them is important.

We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.

Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it.

It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.