I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.

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

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.

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.

Though it's frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippies dancing in the mud, Woodstock was obviously much more than that - or we wouldn't still be talking about it in 2009. People of all ages and colors came together in the fields of Max Yasgur's farm.

I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.