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"Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe."

"Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore."

"For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else."

"The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now."
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"I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on."

"Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public."

"We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked for. It wasn't structured. It was just there. It was very raw. I don't think the industry would allow that to happen again."

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

"When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us."

"Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist."

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

"You were able to sing something they related to instantly, because it was part of what you felt. It was part of what you had already traveled through. It's part of the people you were associating with daily. It was all of that."

"At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart."
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