For what is life but a continuous, dynamic and fluid circle of discoveries that surrounds all peoples and has the power to change even the smallest of us.

Savour on the moment, while still waiting for sacred time.

You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.

Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

I had bags of energy as a kid.

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

If you look at innovation, it doesn't just occur in the lab.

Just because you sell lots of records it doesn't mean to say you're any good. Look at Phil Collins.

Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.

A series of vibrations. What does it matter, the source of the catalyst?