I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.

I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.

I don't worry about being in a hurry anymore, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

The world I was born into was one filled with music.

Life's like a book: What matters is the hook. Be it short or long, just live it strong. Whether it's five stars, or how near or far, just soar!

I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.

As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to be burned alive or dismembered in the street.

I think there's a lot you can learn from everybody; everybody has a story and a strength within them.

If I'm walking very, very fast down Madison Avenue in the middle of the day, I'll say I'm stopped 10 times.

I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.

When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.

Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Can't you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you - unless you actually fail the test?

If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it

When you find things that are tried and true for millennia, you can bet that it's going to happen tomorrow.