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.

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

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 music for free. What's great about today is an artist has an opportunity to go direct to their audience without dealing with a middleman. People can go directly to the web for CDs, DVDs and downloads. I think that's the best thing that's happened, that people's music is being flashed around the world.

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

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 from the subconscious, it can happen anywhere. It could be in a telephone booth.

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.

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.