In a certain way, you get some new tools to work with, but I don't know if it ultimately makes the creative process any easier.
Live Aid was a baby Woodstock, a child of Woodstock, which I call Globalstock.
Woodstock was not about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It was about spirituality, about love, about sharing, about helping each other, living in peace and harmony.
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.
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 to go, joyfully and willingly. I think I'm ready to be everybody's friend, and to do anything for anybody. It's heavy.
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.
We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.
I think sometimes since we have so much technology today it's easy to overproduce things and perfect things in a way that's not really natural, and I've always really gravitated toward imperfections and just the essence of the thing.
Acting isn't a side thing - you have to live and breathe it.
The prefect evening. . . lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy. . . Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence.