The Industry Now Wants To Be In

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 Never Even Visualized For A Second Doing What I'm Doing.

People Abroad Always Tend To Take What The Best Of What We Have And Come Back Through The Back Door Always, Say, And Hit Us With It. And Then We Wake Up One Day And Say, I Think I've Heard That. Yeah, It Was Done By Whoever, You Know. So, Ah, That's Been One Of Our Weaknesses We Don't Tend To Hold On As They Do There.

In New York, I Was Excited About The Music In New York Because The Only Music That I Was More Or Less Involved With In The South Was Either Country And Western Or Hillbilly Music As We Used To Call It When I Was A Kid And, Ah, Gospel. There Was No, There Was No In Between. And When I Got To New York All The Other Musics That's In The World Just Came Into My Head Whether It Was The Classics, Jazz, I Never Knew What Jazz Was About All, Had Heard Anything About Jazz.

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.