I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I was five years old.

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.

Nothing comes from nothing

Be the spark—live light!

A great White Bear waits outside. He has faithfully promised to make us all rich if he can but have our youngest daughter.

Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

I find it really disappointing and cheap when someone's copied the whole drum sound from a record.

The supreme purpose of history is a better world.

What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn?

Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.

Wilf: God bless the cactuses! The Doctor: That's cactI. Alien: And that's racist!