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

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.

We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.

No one needs Independence. We all just need tea and air conditioners.

I want something good to die for. . . to make it beautiful to live.

Appealing to emotions, immediate gratification, and passivity of the American public is enabling a sicker society.

Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God uses only 'special' people the strong, the intelligent, the beautiful. We don't think He has a place for the rest of us. We are so wrong!

If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

Other men's crosses are not my crosses.

That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.

America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.

Anyone who relinquishes a single inch of Jerusalem is neither an Arab nor a Muslim.