Put your trust in me, let this love be. This is for real, let time stand still.

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.

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

Mother Earth has never been more crowded, yet her inhabitants have never been more lonely.

Despite 4, 000 years of proven usefulness, quarantines seem to be to modern international public health experts as garlic is to a vampire.

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.

What worn-out shticks are blinding you to the blessings that life is conspiring to give you?

The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.