The Industry Now Wants To Be In

It's A Different Thing When You Go Into A Studio And You Record With The Intent Of Going Somewhere And You're Marketing Yourself For That Direction.

One Minute We Can Be In A Small Club, The Next Minute We Can Be In A Coliseum, And The Next Minute We Can Be In A Small Auditorium. It Varies, Depending On The Promoter, The Budget, And The Travelling Distance.

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 Take A Chance To Do Something And You Realize In Your Heart It's Either Going To Be The Greatest Thing That Ever Happened Or The Worst Thing That Ever Happened. It Won't Be An In Between, I Almost Made A Hit. It Will Be An Instant Flop Or An Instant Success.

I Would Imagine After The First Recording Session With Jerry Leiber And Mike Stoller And Atlantic Records I Began To Realize That This Is Going To Be Like This For The Rest Of My Life And I Knew That What, What They Were Doing Was Going To Be Successful Because With Each Session That We Would Do, It Would Get Better And Better And Better, The Songs Would Become Better, The, Ah, The Feeling Of Success Was There And We Were All In The Middle Of That As Well.