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

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.

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.

I like a story that could never happen to me. If I want real life I'll read a newspaper.

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft

Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.

Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are

So many policy decisions that effect musicians are being made without any input from musicians at all.

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I thought I wanted.

But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.

I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.