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

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.

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

Detroit is full of talent.

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.

But my thoughts were more like poisons. I had so many, they made me sick.

Art without color would lose much of its purpose.

If it hadn't been for the rise of the working woman's wardrobe, I never would have found the time to sneak a kid in.

When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.

The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

He unwittingly takes a false step and plunges into the abyss.