Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.

Soul ain't nothing but a feeling.

I used to always have a pretty high, little clear voice, but as I got older, I got a little cornbread in it.

First you harmonize, then you customize.

Put your hands on your hip, let your back bone slip. Do the Watusi, like my little Lucy.

I'd start to sing, and the record would start skipping. You'd be skipping along with it. Those were the days, my friend. We'd look so stupid, but the kids loved it.

I'm going to wait til the midnight hour, that's when my love begins to shine.

You need to trust God so you can trust others.

if someone gets jealous from you, dont think about that why they get jealous from you......because thats time time your journey of life to beng a successful person is started

No one can see your visions and dreams as clearly as you can. Purpose is the key to creation manifested through vision.

The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.

My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.

It's so weird for me to be watching The Good Wife while I'm still shooting The Good Wife.

The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Often the most specific stories end up being the most universal.

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.