Many times I've gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You were almost in a ….

I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians..

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes..

Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place..

One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute we can be in a small auditorium. It varies, depend….

I always felt I never chose music, it chose me..

When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thin….

I still perform it in all my shows. I'll do it as long as I'm breathing. I'm so proud it has stood the test of time..

During those times like in my early years as a writer I could actually write a song in ten minutes because all of a sudden a song is writing itself, ….

I would imagine after the first recording session with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and Atlantic Records I began to realize that this is going to be….

You're writing it is how you feel. And when you're finished you put your signature on it and you mail it off and that's it. And that's how "Stand By ….

A singer has got a different attitude, they're they're so whacked out they don't know what they're doing half the time. Singers, they don't, they're ….

Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous l….

People abroad always tend to take what the best of what we have and come back through the back door always, say, and hit us with it. And then we wake….

Most black singers like to slow the word down and, and go directly to your heart. They're not interested in your ears, we just want to go directly to….