You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.

Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.

If you don't try and force it, a song will find the proper moment to come to life.

My daughters are here, and that makes me feel good. And with the spirit of Nick Ashford, I think I'll make it through. I have no choice.

Sometimes all you need is to forgive yourself.

What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.

How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.

Whatever it takes to break your heart and wake you up is grace.

People always say they can't do things, that they're impossible. They just haven't been creative enough.

As I've gotten older, I realize how important my fans are and that I'm here because of them and not the other way around.

Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.