I didn't want to be a big record mogul and all that stuff. I just wanted to write songs and make people laugh.

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.

I'm a songwriter, that's what I love.

I didn't want to be a big record mogul and all that stuff. I just wanted to write songs and make people laugh.

There aren’t enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now

Michael Jackson was not an artist who comes along once in a decade, a generation, or a lifetime. He was an artist who comes along only once, period… He raised the bar and then BROKE the bar!

Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.