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

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.

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

Detroit is full of talent.

If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

Animal? As in lion and tiger and chipmunk? Who's he kidding?

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game

I treated her like a pair of gloves. When I was cold, I called her up.

Leaders often find themselves temporarily alone.

I lost some friends when I made the move, but if that's what matters to them, then they're not really friends at all.

As long as I can wear something that's not too tight, I can move in it, it's not too thick, and I can breathe, it's great.

Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master them, surround them, or repulse them.