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'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 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.

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

He loves me, he loves me not. How many flowers must I kill before he loves me?” ~He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not

Today the idea of the shed blood of Christ is becoming old-fashioned and out of date in a lot of preaching. It is in the Bible. It is the very heart of Christianity.

We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music.

I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories.

The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new concept in terms of ideas which existed before.

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

I see conflict. But the conflict is what makes it relatable. I'm conflicted; you're conflicted. I'm not perfect - nobody is. I'm just blessed to be able to express my conflict through song.

Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the US military stands for.