A lot of times I can across as too masculine to men, and they couldn't handle me, they stayed away.

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.

I feel Motown really exploited me.

I was a black singer with a white voice, a perfect pop voice.

The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly, surrounded by men filled with hope and making solmn vows, thus one should learn to die.Friedrich Nietzsche - thus spoke zarathustra.

The idea self is sacred soul.

The enemy is fierce and he would like for you to think that he has on. Don't believe his lie.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

The chief business of the American people is business.

He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never would be.

A bad mood is like bad breath. Both are wrong to inflict onto others

God is not just one thing we add to the mix called life. He wants an invitation from us to permeate everything and every part of us.

The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.

The difference between the rich and the poor is that the rich have learned to recognize the value of their thoughts.