Edwin Starr

You can only be lucky if you have a place to record.

Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition.

And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history.

I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been.

Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave.

The record industry is a world within itself.

Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended.

If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work.

I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world.

It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.

Unfortunately, I'm not one of those people who take pictures, you know, carry a camera. Because if I did I'd have stack's and stack's and stack's of different act's. I got a lot here - I know what I done.