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.

If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall. Or the mountain should crumble to the sea. I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear, just as long as you stand by me.

The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted.

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

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.

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.

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.