It doesn't take me long to write songs..

I never even visualized for a second doing what I'm doing..

Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll neve….

When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we see. No, I won't be afraid, no, I won't be afraid, just as long as you….

I think that the song, the song "Stand By Me" is one of those songs that... and someone asked me, what was you thinking about or what was you feeling….

I enjoyed singing, I loved song writing, I loved recording. All those things that involves with creating music was great..

If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall. Or the mountain should crumble to the sea. I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear, just as long as ….

You take a chance to do something and you realize in your heart it's either going to be the greatest thing that ever happened or the worst thing that….

The industry now wants to be in charge of everything..

If you just concentrate on what you're doing and allow yourself to actually enjoy and let your feelings come out, whatever the tempos, whatever the r….

If there's anything about the business that I love and that I'm extremely happy about, is that my career started at that time and that I met some of ….

Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't e….

One of the hardest things in the world is to perform on record and get someone to enjoy and feel what you're doing. It's unlike, like TV you can, you….

I don't care what studio I'm in, I don't care what producers is producing it and I don't care what song it is because they taught me those things I f….

It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing..

I'm a songwriter. So I'm OK. But when I wrote "Stand By Me" as a song and to know that the song will probably be here for hundred and hundreds of yea….

And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street..

In New York, I was excited about the music in New York because the only music that I was more or less involved with in the South was either country a….

The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because e….

It's a different thing when you go into a studio and you record with the intent of going somewhere and you're marketing yourself for that direction..

I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on..