It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do.

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, depending on the promoter, the budget, and the travelling distance.

The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy.

The industry now wants to be in charge of everything.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

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 lift to me as an artist.

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 never know the true feeling that we did.

When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us.

It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do.

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

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 even attempt for a second to play in public.

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

One of the members of the group, I can't remember which one, found out we were making $3 - $5,000 a night. We were getting a hundred dollars a week a piece. Everybody got upset about it.

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 each and everything he's ever done has always been charted.

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

At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart.

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

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

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

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 thing.

We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked for. It wasn't structured. It was just there. It was very raw. I don't think the industry would allow that to happen again.

He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.

You were able to sing something they related to instantly, because it was part of what you felt. It was part of what you had already traveled through. It's part of the people you were associating with daily. It was all of that.

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 the greatest entertainers at that time and some are still here.

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 little restricted area there.

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

In my vocal, I think you can hear something of my earlier times when I'd sing in subway halls for the echo and perform doo-wop on street corners. But I had a lot of influences, too - singers like Sam Cooke, Brook Benton and Roy Hamilton.

I won't be afraid just as long as you stand, stand by me.

You'll read things and say, this is a really good project and it's probably going to be a hit, but I can see 20 other people playing that part. You have to have some sense of ownership to do a good job and be married to it for ever.

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks.

When Libya was in turmoil in 2011, the Chinese public was surprised to discover that more than thirty thousand of their countrymen were living there, most of them working on Chinese-run oil projects.

Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.

Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

Being at boarding school in the pre-internet era, especially a boarding school tucked away in the Oxfordshire countryside, was like being in a cocoon. You had your own life; world events happened elsewhere.

I would love to design my own shoe line. Women suffer too much in heels. I want to design a line of sexy platform heels that don't hurt.

In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however.

Aaron Echolls is one of the best characters that I've ever played.

Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.

I've always wanted to do action and action movies. I grew up on that.

The Gospel is not an alternative, it's an ultimatum.

Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

Baseball is a game with a lot of waiting in it it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action.

When much is taken, something is returned.

I've been fortunate because I got the gift to do comedy and drama. When you can do both, you get twice as many parts as anyone else.

I think people keep baseballs in their cars, just to be prepared in case they see me. It's cool to get recognized in public; it's an incredible feeling.