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

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.

The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.

I’m not a musician, I just play bass.

My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.

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.

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, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.

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.

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.

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

With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.

I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.

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

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.

Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.

If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

I want to be really, really clear about this. It doesn’t mean that everyone or even the majority of people who voted for Donald Trump are racist or white supremacists or anything like that. But what it means is that it’s not a mistake that Trump began his campaign with birthersism .

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.

That was a foul, young lady. You know that was a foul. Don’t ask dumb questions.

Donald Trump says five things: everyone’s dumb, he’s going to make America great again, we’re going to win, win, win. He’s winning in the polls.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

I’ve done a lot of dumb things in my life.