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

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 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.

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

The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating

Love is thicker than blood, its blind to color, it is its own culture

How can I be myself, when others expect me to be someone else?

I learned to never say never and never say no, so I decided to go pro. I knew I'd have an opportunity to be a defensive player in the NFL.

We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job.

Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.

Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch

We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Close Dept. of Education, but don't dismantle public schools.

I'd rather have a second-best decision diligently pursued than a first-best decision lackadaisically pursued.