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If you haven't got a sense of humor you're making your life a hundred times harder. It doesn't matter what happens to you, if you can have a laugh about it, and don't take yourself so serious, you have the battles halfway won.
I played upright bass. I wanted to write great tunes, play the bass, be a band leader, and smoke a big funny pipe like Charlie Mingus. So I went out and bought the pipe when I was around 18 or 19 years old. You know even women smoke a pipe in Glasgow. I worked with Carla Bley and she smoked a pipe, which I find fascinating.
I'm no politician but I do feel that a lot of damage was done because of misguided principals and America is still suffering from it.
I've always had money because of my early success with Cream, so I tell young musicians to aim to write their own material, because owning the composition rights makes a very big difference.
What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms into rock.
Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know
Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage.
Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.
Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.
I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
