Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots

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.

Not everyone understand everything.

In Japan, so many emoticons have been created that it’s reasonable to assume Japanese appreciate their convenience more than anyone else.

It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

My thing is trying to convince them they can win.

I don't know where I'll be crashing. I think that was my line.

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

I've been very active in Missouri.

How does Rudolph know when Christmas is coming? He looks at his calen-deer!