I enjoyed singing, I loved song writing, I loved recording. All those things that involves with creating music was great.

It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.

And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.

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

I never even visualized for a second doing what I'm doing.

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.

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.