If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.

I will always dance in the street.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.