Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.

Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

If you feel like loving me, if you've got the notion, I second that emotion.

The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.

Songwriting is my gift from God

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth

Mistakes, I know I've made a few. But I'm only human, you've made mistakes, too.

I will bring you a flower from the floor of the sea to wear in your hair.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.

All of it seems like noise and false light, and all I want for tonight is quiet, the black and gray of a summer night, and a girl in a pink dress, beside me forever.

Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.

Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target.

God has taken four guys that look like five miles of muddy road and made them famous in the TV world.

All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.

How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away by rhetoric?

I'm good where I am at this moment.

People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided at that level.