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

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

All artists have runners, people that tell them what to do, business managers, lawyers, these - if they get the right ones, they're lucky, and if they get the wrong ones, they're unlucky.

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

I've discovered that Motown and Broadway have a lot in common - a family of wonderfully talented, passionate, hardworking young people, fiercely competitive but also full of love and appreciation for the work, for each other and for the people in the audience.

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