I Always Felt I Never Chose Music,

If There's Anything About The Business That I Love And That I'm Extremely Happy About, Is That My Career Started At That Time And That I Met Some Of The Greatest Entertainers At That Time And Some Are Still Here.

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.

I'm A Songwriter. So I'm Ok. But When I Wrote "stand By Me" As A Song And To Know That The Song Will Probably Be Here For Hundred And Hundreds Of Years To Come, It's Great, You Know. And It Was Just Simple Lyrics.

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.

Of Course, The Kids Who Had Never Heard Of A Person Called Ben E. King Were Then Aware Of The Name Associated With The Song. That Gave A Tremendous Lift To Me As An Artist.