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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

I love playing bass. It's mostly what I play in Divine Fits.

I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

I've always said the bass just happens to be the crayon I picked out of the box. I'd still be drawing the same pictures... should I have picked trumpet or accordion or guitar, whatever it may be. The sounds in my head are still the same.

In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.

I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

At the time, I didn't know that bass would not be enough for me. I'm not a bass player because bass is always a background instrument even to this very day.

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