Everything I want to do, and to accomplish, is on the other side of the universe. That's peace of mind, energy, freedom. And I'm making myself ready ….

Nothing has really changed. We had bootleg albums in the '60s and today we have Internet file sharing. They just found a better way to do it -- get m….

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..

I tended to listen to doo-wop, but my grandmother would always have the radio on all day and she'd start with Yiddish and then move on to gospel and ….

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 believe we have a double in every country. There's something about that that is probably a commonness that we don't make note of. That maybe there'….

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

I must have played every college and university at least three times, and that goes for most of the clubs. I'd be on the road six days a week, go hom….

I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist. So I got to the club and spotted this big post….

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 a….

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 ….

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..

Though it's frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippies dancing in the mud, Woodstock was obviously much mo….

I opened the Woodstock Festival even though I was supposed to be fifth. I said, 'What am I doing here? No, no, not me, not first!' I had to go on sta….

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

I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and performed poetry. Then I drew portraits f….

When I write a song today, basically it goes on the stage tomorrow. That's the way it works. You cannont interrupt your consciousness; it all comes f….

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

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

Woodstock was not about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It was about spirituality, about love, about sharing, about helping each other, living in peac….