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

I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.

His [Michael Jackson] behavior was weird, but when you get an artist and a genius, many of the geniuses throughout our whole history were weird. And they did weird things because none of us could understand what was on their mind and why they did what they did.

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

But once I saw them [Jackson 5 during audition], I rushed out with my video camera to start taping them because I knew that they were something so special, mainly because of the lead singer, nine-year-old Michael Jackson. And it was just so obvious to me that he was a star.

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

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