Pretty girls come a dime a dozen, try to find one who's gonna give you true loving.

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.

Where your fear is, there is your task.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.

Now that you've reached everything, you must slay this illusion without slaying it - without becoming caught up in the illusion of slaying illusions.

You are always new to me.

I'm not a populist. But I try to present complicated issues in such a way that people know where I stand.

When you get frustrated you try to do too much, you try to make stuff up that's not there, and you play outside yourself.

They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.