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.

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.

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.

Now if I appear to be carefree it's only to camouflage my sadness. In order to keep my pride I try to cover the hurt with a show of gladness.

Catching fish is secondary to the immeasurable joys of the watery world.

Each loved one went silently down

You and I are the remains of an unfulfilled legacy, heirs to a kingdom of stolen identities and ragged confusion.

There are as many ways to discover your story as there are to trip over a dog in the kitchen--and some of them feel about as planned.

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

I am an audiophile. It's almost like a virus. I'm completely crazy about the quality of sound. It's interesting and painful at the same time; you have to really spend a lot of money on the equipment.

The first time I took LSD, it just blew everything away. I had such an incredible feeling of well-being.

My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun," Margo said.

My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.

True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.