It doesn't take me long to write songs.

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.

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

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are...

Forgiveness is the best way to disempower an enemy.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

God is teaching you a Lesson of Victory.

Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance and faith that you begin in a moment and maintain for the rest of your life.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.

Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.

And the boy loved the tree.......very much. And the tree was happy.