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

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

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 poster saying, 'Richie Havens, folk jazz artist.' Then I'd go to a rock club and I'm billed as a 'folk rock performer' and in the blues clubs I'd be a 'folk blues entertainer.'

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 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.

Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we werent able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels.

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