I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.

The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.

Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.

Live Aid was a baby Woodstock, a child of Woodstock, which I call Globalstock.

Richie is the only one of my nine who's really moved away. I can't get rid of most of them.

I eat once a day if I remember, and I try never to go to sleep.

My right wrist is connected to the left foot. You know, if the left foot doesn't work, the right wrist doesn't work, and that's really the truth.

I started out by myself, but it eventually turned into a trio by the mid-'60s - a conga drum and another guitarist. And that's been mostly what I've worked with most of the time.

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.

I don't get sick. I can't afford to get sick.

I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.

Still round the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate.

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.

I'm not good at taking pictures. I can't give a good face. I crack up.

I am not a quitter. I will fight until I drop. It is just a matter of having some faith in the fact that as long as you are able to draw breath in the universe, you have a chance.

I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.

If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything.

A thought, once uttered, is untrue