It is a great life, this life of music.

I've been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before the singer starts singing, you know the track is swinging ... you know you have a multimillion-seller hit - and what you're working on suddenly has magic.

Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.

The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

There's been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.

Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.

A singer's biographical film should have their music and their voice.