I'm a songwriter, that's what I love.

I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.

Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important.

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.

There aren’t enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now

Michael Jackson was not an artist who comes along once in a decade, a generation, or a lifetime. He was an artist who comes along only once, period… He raised the bar and then BROKE the bar!

I didn't want to be a big record mogul and all that stuff. I just wanted to write songs and make people laugh.

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.

Today's business climate is not for me.

All artists have runners, people that tell them what to do, business managers, lawyers, these - if they get the right ones, they're lucky, and if they get the wrong ones, they're unlucky.

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 beg you, help me, in angelic charity, Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery!

I'm a Pele fan from way back when I was a kid, and then there was always this thing later about Pele and Maradona. I was young and impressionable as a kid but it was always Pele for me.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and you can be wrong.

If you are doing something wrong, you will do it badly.

All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.