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

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.

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

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 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.

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

I don't know who you are, " she thought, "but whoever you are, you're one hell of a player.

A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals.

The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.

I'm the white Mohammad Ali.

I went to public school up until junior high.

If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them, and stab them in the heart.

Sometimes the presence of a camera is like opening a door, because many people want what Andy Warhol called "15 minutes of fame." But prostitutes don't want that.

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

To be like other people is to be unlike ourselves.