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I consider myself a bassist first.

A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.

I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.

I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing, and you have to sort of even that out.

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

I always got great respect as a bass player.

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.

Bass guitar is the engine of the band.

From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody I've ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.