There are very few courses around Detroit I haven't played

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.

In his mind progress was always to be measured in inches, especially when you didn’t have yards or even feet of success to show off.

If you are afraid of changes Watch from a distance Whether or not I might do something If you're going to talk about me behind my back It is what it is.

I make no apologies for being reasonable.

Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.

Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.

At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.

I was wearing like, a Juicy Couture men's polo shirt. We weren't there, like, ready for war.

Never moon a werewolf.

I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too.

No government can make me wear a veil, no government can force me not to wear it either