At least they'll know that we're still out there on this earth, still making music.

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

The earth laughs in flowers.

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.

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

In my vocal, I think you can hear something of my earlier times when I'd sing in subway halls for the echo and perform doo-wop on street corners. But I had a lot of influences, too - singers like Sam Cooke, Brook Benton and Roy Hamilton.