It Doesn't Take Me Long

I Still Perform It In All My Shows. I'll Do It As Long As I'm Breathing. I'm So Proud It Has Stood The Test Of Time.

During Those Times Like In My Early Years As A Writer I Could Actually Write A Song In Ten Minutes Because All Of A Sudden A Song Is Writing Itself, I'm Just Putting Down Words. It Just Seem Each Line That You Put Down Flows With The Other Ones. It's Like Writing A Love Letter You Don't Think About It, It's Something From The Heart.

I Think That The Song, The Song "stand By Me" Is One Of Those Songs That... And Someone Asked Me, What Was You Thinking About Or What Was You Feeling About? It's Something That, Songwriters Just Write Songs. It's Like An Artist That Paints. They Paint What They Feel. It's Not, It's Not About How Many Of These Painting I'll Sell It's Just How They Feel At The Moment. And That's How I Wrote "stand By Me".

In New York, I Was Excited About The Music In New York Because The Only Music That I Was More Or Less Involved With In The South Was Either Country And Western Or Hillbilly Music As We Used To Call It When I Was A Kid And, Ah, Gospel. There Was No, There Was No In Between. And When I Got To New York All The Other Musics That's In The World Just Came Into My Head Whether It Was The Classics, Jazz, I Never Knew What Jazz Was About All, Had Heard Anything About Jazz.

You Take A Chance To Do Something And You Realize In Your Heart It's Either Going To Be The Greatest Thing That Ever Happened Or The Worst Thing That Ever Happened. It Won't Be An In Between, I Almost Made A Hit. It Will Be An Instant Flop Or An Instant Success.