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 spoiled too.

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.

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 stand, stand by me.

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.

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 stand by me.

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

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.

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 Me" was really.

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

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

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

Yo Mama’s so ugly that your father takes her to work with him so that he doesn't have to kiss her goodbye.

We must learn from life how to suffer it.

Charm is to a woman what perfume is to a flower.

May God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Every single day, I get asked by people to do the face, so Im bringing it along with me now for the rest of my life.

Macau is democratic and free enough.. it's prosperous enough. Why do people need to do this?.

The last thing my mother said to me was, 'SuSu, your life is a celebration of everything that is cheap and tawdry.' I've always liked that, and I've always tried to live up to it.

I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.