With a heart that is truthful, keeping you youthful.

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.

To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work.

Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

Well. I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't.

People think you have to go through a lot of changes to become a soul singer, You just have to go through life.

When you hang a man, you better look at him.

The way you get to know yourself is by the expression on other people's faces.

If I had to run a company on three measures, those measures would be customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and cash flow.

How can we bless at one moment and curse at another?